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An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
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France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so Forth, before
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good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
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chosen, who being then and there duly sworn and Charged to enquire for our said Lord the
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his Death, do upon their Oath Say, That the said Thomas Spurrett an Infant
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on the Twenty fifth day of June in the Year aforesaid being with two
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in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid
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and the said Thomas Spurrett having last hole of the Oar with which he
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was Rowing, and endeavouring to recover it, It so happened that the said
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Thomas Spurrett did then and there Accidentally Casually and by
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of which said Suffocation and Drowing he the said Thomas Spurrett
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then and there died, And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid
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do say, that the said Thomas Spurrett Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune
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came to his Death, and not otherwise. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner
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the rest of his Fellows in their Presence have to this Inquisition set their Hands and
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Seals the Day Year and Place First above written
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