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(To wit)}
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AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at
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twenty second Day of June in the twenty fifth Year of the Reign of
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our sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third
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Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before
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one of the Coroners of our said Lord the King for the said County, on View of the Body of
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
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George Bell
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Kempton
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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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Thomas Goldsmith
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came to his
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Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said
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Thomas Goldsmith
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on the Twentieth
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Day of June in the Year aforesaid being at Work as a
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at the House of
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fell from a Scaffold into a Place called The Well By Means whereof he the said
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Thomas Goldsmith
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then and there received divers Mortal Bruises Of which said
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mortal Bruises he the said
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then and there died And so the Jurors
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aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said
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came to his Death
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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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