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An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
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King, at the Parish of Saint George
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within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter,
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, the Sixteenth day of January in the Fifteenth Year
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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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Samuel
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William Horrocks
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William Allen
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William
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Hawkins
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George Martin
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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 of the
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Fourteenth day of January in the Year aforesaid, was found
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drowned and floating in and upon the River Thomas, in the
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Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, That
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the said Man unknown had no Marks of violence appearing on his
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Body, but how or by what Means he become Drowned no Evidence
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thereof doth appear to the
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as well the said Coroner, at the said
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Samuel Roome
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Foreman
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of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his
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Fellows, in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their
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Hands and Seals, the Day Year and Place first above written.
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Saml. RoomeForeman
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