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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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within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter,
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Nineteenth day of September
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in the Fourteenth 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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Edmund Smith
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
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Abraham
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Appleton
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Samuel brook
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Thomas Blackmore
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Charles Inderwick
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John Hansell
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Thomas Lee
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Richard Bunney
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James Wood
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John Price
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and
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Matthew Lovejoy
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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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Edmund Smith
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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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Edmund Smith
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on the
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Sixteenth day of September in the Year aforesaid (in the Night time)
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being in the Garden of
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Thomas Hodges
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situate upon
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Mill Bank
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in
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the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid,
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and being then and there Intoxicated with Liquor, It so happened
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that the said
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Edmund Smith
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then and there Accidentally Casually
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and by Misfortune fell into a certain Well in the Garden of the said
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Thomas Hodges
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, and in the Water in the said Well was then and there
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Suffocated and Drowned, of which said Suffocation and Drowning
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he the said
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Edmund Smith
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then and there died. And so the Jurors
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aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said
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Edmund
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Smith
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in Manner and by the Means aforesaid, Accidentally
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Casually and by Misfortune came to his death, and not otherwise.
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In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said
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Abraham Appleton
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Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of
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himself and the rest of his Fellows, in their presence, have to this
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Inquisition set their Hands and Seals, the Day Years and Place
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first above written
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