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good and lawfull Men of the said Liberty duly chosen, who being then and there due
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Sworn and Charge to inquire for our said Lord the king, when, now, and by what
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means the said Woman Unknowncame to her Death, do upon their oath
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say, That the said Woman Unknown on the Fifth day of February in the Year aforesaid
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was found Drowned and Suffocated in the River Thomas, to wit, at
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the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, That the said Woman
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Unknown had no Marks of Violence appearing on her Body, but how or by what
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Means she became Drowned and Suffocated, no Evidence there of there of doth appear to
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the Jurors. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said Henry
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Letheby Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his said
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Fellows, in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals, the Day
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Year and Place first above written
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Henry Letheby Foreman
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