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(To wit)}</note>
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AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at The Parish<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCOIC65102_geo1520">Saint Paul Shadwell</rs>
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in the County of<lb></lb>
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, the <rs type="date" id="LMCOIC65102_date222">Twenty Eighth Day of October in the Twenty Third Year of the Reign of<lb></lb>
our sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third</rs>
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, by the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France, and<lb></lb>
Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1475-2">Thomas Phillips</rs>
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one of the Coroners of our said Lord the King for the said County, on View of the Body of <lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1475-3">Robert Wood</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1475-4">David Charles</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1475-5">James Ladson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1475-6">James Wallis</rs>
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Michael, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1475-7">Christian Owe</rs>
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, George Hagleton Charles<lb></lb>
Melling, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1475-8">John Prior</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1475-9">Peter Wallis</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1475-10">Michael Fenning</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1475-11">William Rowed</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1475-12">Miles Dudley</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1475-13">John Pownceby</rs>
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good and lawful Men of the said County, duly chosen, and who being then and there duly<lb></lb>
sworn and charged to inquire, for our said Lord the King, when, how, and by what Means, the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1475-14">Robert Wood</rs>
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came to his<lb></lb>
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That The said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1475-15">Robert Wood</rs>
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on the Twenty seventh Day<lb></lb>
of November in the year aforesaid being in a Lighter to the Jurors aforesaid unknown<lb></lb>
then <rs type="placeName" id="LMCOIC65102_geo1522">lying on The River Thames</rs>
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at Polican Stairs in the Parish and County aforesaid<lb></lb>
And being stepping from the said Lighter into another Lighter to the said Jur<obscured></obscured>
also unknown then and<lb></lb>
there also lying It so happened That he the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1475-16">Robert Wood</rs>
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then and there<lb></lb>
accidentally, casually and by Misfortune fell into the said River And was in the<lb></lb>
waters thereof then and there suffocated and Drowned Of which said Suffocation<lb></lb>
and Drowning he the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1475-17">Robert Wood</rs>
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then and there Died And so the Jurors aforesaid<lb></lb>
upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1475-18">Robert Wood</rs>
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in Manner and by<lb></lb>
the means aforesaid accidentally, casually and by Misfortune came to his Death<lb></lb>
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IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1475-19">David Charles</rs>
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the Foreman of the said Jurors, on the Behalf of himself and the Rest of his said Fellows, in<lb></lb>
their Presence, have, to this Inquisition, set their Hands and Seals, the Day and Year first<lb></lb>
above written.</p>
<p n="1476"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1476-1">Thos. Phillips</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMCOIC65102_occ316">Coroner</rs>
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David Charles<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Foreman</p>
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