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An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
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in the Thirteenth Year
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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 laying dead, upon the Oath of
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Joseph Allen
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Thomas Scott
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George Eyre
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Richard
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Sherlock
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George Worthy
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Edward Deacon
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Thomas Spencer
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William Bussy
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William
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Ketley
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Frederick Duperray
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and
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John Burgess
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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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William Davidson
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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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William Davidson
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a Laborer on
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the Twenty eighth day of May in the Year aforesaid being at Work with
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and standing near unto
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Robert Young
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a Pavior in
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in the County aforesaid, And the said
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Robert Young
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being then and there with a Sledge Hammer breaking a certain large Stone
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for the purpose of Paving therewith, It so happened, that, Casually and
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by Misfortune and against the Will of the said
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, a piece of the
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said Stone flew against the Right Eye of the said
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Means whereof the said
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then and there received a mortal Wound
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in and upon his Right Eye, of which said mortal Wound he the said
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William
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Davidson
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from the said Twenty eighth day of May in the Year aforesaid until
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the Sixth day of June in the same year, at the said Parish of
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St. Margaret
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within the Liberty and County aforesaid did languish and languishing did
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live, on which said Sixth day of June in the year aforesaid, he the said
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</
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William Davidson
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at the said Parish of St. Margaret within the Liberty
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lb
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</
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and County aforesaid, of the mortal Wound aforesaid, Casually by Misfortune
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>
</
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and against the will of the said
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Robert Young
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, came to his death, and not
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lb
>
</
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>
otherwise. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the
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>
</
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>
said
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Thomas Lamb
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Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of
<
lb
>
</
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>
himself and the rest of his Fellows, in their presence, have to this
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>
</
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>
Inquisition set their Hands and Seals, the Day Year and Place
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</
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first above written
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Tho. Prickard
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Coroner
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Thos. Lamb
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Foreman
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