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to Wit.
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An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
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King, at the Parish of
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Fourth day of January
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in the Twelfth Year
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of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great-Britain,
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France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before
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, Gentleman,
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Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
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Thomas Brook
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John Child
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William Coffield
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Richard Lane
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Nathaniel Drake
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Thomas Renison
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Edward Dunn
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Thomas Carey
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Joseph Phillips
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Michael Fields
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Richard Catling
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and
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Lawrence Price
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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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King, when, how, and by what Means the said
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Thomas Rice
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came to
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h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said
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Thomas Rice
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a Laborer, being
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at Work in the Browhouse of
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John Phillips
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a Brewer in the Parish of
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Saint
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John the Evangelist
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within the Liberty and County aforesaid, on the Second day
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of December in the Year aforesaid, and being then and there Pumping some
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Boiling Amber Wort out of the Jack back into a large Cooler, which was almost
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full, It so happened that the said
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Thomas Rice
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then and there Accidentally
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Casually and by misfortune fell into the said Boiling Wort in the said Cooler,
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whereby the said
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was then and there very much sealded and
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Burnt, of Which said Sealding the said
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Thomas Rice
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from the said Second day
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of December in the Year aforesaid until the Thirty first day of the same Month
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and Year, at the said Parish of
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St. Margaret
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within the Liberty and County
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aforesaid did languish and languishing did live, on which said Thirty first
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day of December aforesaid at the said Parish of St. Margaret, he the said
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Thomas Rice
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of the violent Sealding aforesaid did die. And so the Jurors
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aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said
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Thomas Rice
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in
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Manner and by the Means aforesaid Accidentally Casually and by
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Misfortune came to is Death, and not otherwise. In Witness
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whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said
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Thomas Brook
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Foreman of
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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
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Year and Place first above written
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Thos Brook
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