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Grace of god of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so forth before
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good and lawfull Men of the said Liberty duly Chosen
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Who being then and there duly Sworn and Charged to inquire for Our said Lord the King, when, how, and by what
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Means the said
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came to his Death do upon their Oath say That
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on the Eighth day of December in the Year aforesaid, being in Liquor
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within the Liberty and
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County aforesaid, It so happened that the said
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Casually and by Misfortune fall down upon certain Stone Steps leading into an Area in the Front of
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and belonging to a Dwelling House situate in the said Street, (the Iron Gate of the said Area being
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then and there received a
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from the said Eighth day of December in the Year aforesaid until the Seventeenth day of
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Liberty and County aforesaid did languish and languishing did live, on which said Seventeenth
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of the violent Concussion aforesaid, did die
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And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said
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Andrew Thomas
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in Manner
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and by the Means aforesaid, Accidentally, Casually, and by Misfortune, came to his Death, and
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not otherwise. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said
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John Cropley
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Foreman of the said Jurors, on the 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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first above written
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Tho Prickard
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