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Stone,
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good and lawful Men of the said County duly chosen as by Law required and who being then and there duly
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sworn and charged, to enquire for our said Lord the King, when, how, and by what means the said John
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Simmondscame to his Death, Do upon their Oath say, That the said
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on the twenty Eighth Day of September in the Year aforesaid being
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in a Barge called The Generous Friends which was then in the
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then and there died And so
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John Simmonds
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his Death
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In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said
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the Foreman of
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the said Jurors, on Behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows, in their Presence, have to this Inquisition set
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their Hands and Seals the Day and Year first abovementioned.
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