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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_geo2246">Saint John Wapping</rs>
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in the County of<lb></lb>
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, the <rs type="date" id="LMCOIC65102_date335">sixteenth Day of July in the Twenty fifth 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_n2244-2">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>
a man unknown then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2244-3">William Smith</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2244-4">James French</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2244-5">William Harris</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2244-6">Joseph Hare</rs>
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, John Hanton Thomas<lb></lb>
Bright, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2244-7">John Osborn</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2244-9">Joseph Meers</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2244-10">Robert Leighton</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2244-11">Richard Moore</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2244-12">Benjamin Robinson</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2244-13">William Haynes</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 Man unknown came to his<lb></lb>
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said man unknown on the Sixteenth Day<lb></lb>
of July in the year aforesaid was found drowned and suffocated in the <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2244-14">Rivers Thomas</rs>
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a <rs type="placeName" id="LMCOIC65102_geo2248">Wapping Dock</rs>
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in the Parish and County aforesaid That the said Man unknown<lb></lb>
had not any marks of Violence appearing about him And how or by Means he became<lb></lb>
drowned and suffocated no Evidence doth appear to the said Jurors<lb></lb>
IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2244-15">William Smith</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="2245"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2245-1">Thos. Phillips</rs>
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William Smith<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Foreman</p>
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