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Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so forth, before
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Thomas Thompson
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Alexander
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Edward Jay
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Thomas Shelshaw
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Jasper Smith
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William Rose
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James Obrey
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Edward Woodcock
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John Baker
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George Goodall
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Thomas Wild
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John Trueman
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good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly chosen, and who being then and there duly Sworn
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and charged to inquire for our said Lord the King, when how and by what means the said
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, came to his Death Do upon their Oath say, That on the fourth day of July in the Year
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was walking in
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, and in going by the said of a Pond
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of Water, near a Building called the Cheese Cake House in the said
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, within the Liberty and County aforesaid; It so happened that the said
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Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune fell into the said Pond, and in the Waters
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thereof was then and there Suffocated and Drowned, Of which said Suffocation and Drowning
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then and there instantly Died; And so the Jurors aforesaid, upon
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their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said
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aforesaid, Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune came to his Death, and not otherwise,
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In Witness whereof, as well the said Coroner, as the said
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Thomas Thompson
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Foreman of the said Jurors, on behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows, in their
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presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals, the Day Year and Place
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abovementioned.
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Tho Prickard
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Coroner
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Tho Thompson
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Foreman
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