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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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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
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John
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Thomas Honour
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Rees Williams
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Richard English
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Stephen Preston
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James Mc Cartney
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Henry
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Hassell
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William Deane
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George Lyddell
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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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Edward Miller
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came to
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his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said
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Edward Miller
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on the Sixth
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day of February in the Year aforesaid, being Shaiting upon a certain
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Pond by the said of the Kings Road near
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Bloody Bridge
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in the Parish
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aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, It so happened
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that the Ice broke under the said
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, and that the said
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Edward Miller
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then and there Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune
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fell into the said Pond, and in the Waters thereof was then and
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there suffocated and drowned, of which said Suffocation and
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Drowning he the said
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Edward Miller
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than and there died. And so the
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Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said
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Edward Miller
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in Manner and by the Means aforesaid
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Accidentally Casully and by Misfortune came to his death,
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and not otherwise. In Witness whereof as well the said
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Coroner as the said
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John Dixon
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Foreman of the said Jurors, on the
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behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows, in their presence
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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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Tho Prickard
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