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An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
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, the Sixth day of January in the twenty fourth
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Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before
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of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on
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then and there lying dead, upon
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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 John Breede came to
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his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said John Breede a
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on the said Sixth day of January in the Year
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aforesaid being at Work on the top of a certain Empty House
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situate in
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in the Parish aforesaid within the
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Liberty and County aforesaid, and then and there being
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upon a Ladder on the Outside of the said House, It so happened
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fall from the Top of the said House into the said Street, and
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thereby then and there received a mortal Fracture in and
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upon the Rightside of the Head of him the said John Breede
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of which said Mortal Fracture he the said John Breede then
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and there instantly died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon
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their Oath aforesaid do say, That the said John Breede in
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Manner and form aforesaid Accidentally Casually and by
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Misfortune came to his Death and not otherwise. In Witness
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whereof as well the said Coroner as the said
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of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and
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the rest of his Fellows in their presence, have to this Inquisition
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set
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