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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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said Ward Gray came to his
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Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That The said Ward Gray on the Twenty ninth Day
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of November in the year aforesaid being the Driver of a certain Waggon
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Parish and County aforesaid It so happened That accidentally casually and by
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Shaft of the said Waggon and the Gate Post of the said Turnpike By Means
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whereof he the said Ward Gray then and there received divers Mortal Bruises in
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and upon the Arms and Body of him the said Ward Gray of which said Mortal
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the said County to wit in a certain Hospital there situate
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Space of an Hour or thereabouts and then died (to wit) in the Hospital aforesaid And
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so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said
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in Manner and by the Means aforesaid accidentally, casually Misfortune
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IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said
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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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above written.
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