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An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
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King, at the
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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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Thomas Prickard
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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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Benjamin
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Arthur Watkins
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John Baucut
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James Aldridge
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Thomas Horne
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Thomas Acomb
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William Chambers
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Edward Widder
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William Chandler
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Charles
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Hamilton
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Ralph Coughlan
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John Hinton
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David Johnson
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William Stag
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Clement Watts
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John March
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and
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William Lambe
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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 Man unknown came to
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h is Death, do upon their Oath say That the said Man unknown on the
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Eighth day of April in the Year aforesaid was found Drowned and
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Suffocated in the
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River Thames
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, in a certain place called
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Mill Bank
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in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid,
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That no Marks of violence appeared on the Body of the said Man
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unknown, but how or by what Means he became Drowned, no
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Evidence thereof doth appear to the Jurors. In Witness whereof
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as well the said Coroner, as the said
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Benjamin Cann
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Foreman of
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the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows,
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in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals
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the Day Year and Place first abovewritten
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Tho. Prickard
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Coroner
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Benjn. Cann
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"gender"
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Foreman
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