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AN INQUISITION indented taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at The Parish
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
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Charles Earle
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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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Joseph Sharp
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came to his
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Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said
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Joseph Sharp
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on the Twelfth Day of July
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in the Year aforesaid being coming down certain Stairs in the Dwelling House of William
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Lammas situate at
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That he the said
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then and there accidentally casually and by Misfortune fell from
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the said Stairs upon the Wooden, Floor at the Bottom thereof By Means whereof he the said
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then and there received a Mortal Compression on his Brain Of which said
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mortal Compression he the said
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from the said Twelfth Day of July in the Year
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aforesaid untill the Fourteenth Day of the same Month in the same Year at the Parish last
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aforesaid and also at the Parish five abovementioned to Wit in the
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London Hospital
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situate did Languish and Languishing did Live. On which said Fourteenth Day of July in
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the Year aforesaid he the said
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Joseph Sharp
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at
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aforesaid of the Mortal
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Compression aforesaid did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say
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That the said
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in Manner and by the Means aforesaid accidentally casually
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and by Misfortune 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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above written.
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Chas. Meyer
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Foreman
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