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AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish
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good and lawful Men of the said County, duly chosen, and who being then and there duly
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sworn and charged to inquire, for our said Lord the King, when, how, and by what Means, the
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Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said
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of October in the year aforesaid being on Board a Ship called The Ostrich
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to the Jurors aforesaid unknown
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then and there suffocated and Drowned of which said Suffocation and Drowning
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the Means aforesaid accidentally casually and by
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IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said William Bargh
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the Foreman of the said Jurors, on the Behalf of himself and the Rest of his said Fellows, in
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their Presence, have, to this Inquisition, set their Hands and Seals, the Day and Year first
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