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Great-Britain France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before
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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 Peter Gurton came to
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h is Death, do upon their Oath say , That the said Peter Gurton on the first
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day of September in the Year aforesaid going into the Serpentine River
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in
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in the said Parish of St. Margaret within the Liberty
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and County aforesaid, to bathe himself, It so happened that Accidentally
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Casually and by Misfortune he the said Peter Gurton was then and
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there in the Water of the said River suffocated and Drowned, of which
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said suffocation and Drowning he the said Peter Gurton then and
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there Died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid,
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do say that the said Peter Gurton in manner and by the means
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aforesaid, Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune came to his
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Death and not otherwise.
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In Witness whereof as well the
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said Coroner as the said
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, Foreman of the
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said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows
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in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and
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Seals the Day Year and Place abovementioned.
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