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<p n="1815"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">London</note>
An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to<lb></lb>
say at the parish of Saint Bridget otherwise<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Bride in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65005_geo1832">Ward of Farringdon</rs>
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without<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65005_geo1833">London</rs>
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aforesaid on the <rs type="date" id="LMCLIC65005_date166">twentieth day of September</rs>
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in the thirty second Year of the<lb></lb>
Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third by the Grace of God of Great Britain France<lb></lb>
and Ireland King defender of the faith and so forth before <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65005_n1815-3">Thomas Shelton</rs>
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of our said Lord the King for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65005_geo1834">City of London</rs>
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and Borough of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65005_geo1835">Southwark</rs>
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on view<lb></lb>
of the Body of<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65005_n1815-4">Richard Pritchard</rs>
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now here lying dead by the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65005_n1815-5">Stephen Hempton</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65005_n1815-6">James Dawson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65005_n1815-7">James Hill</rs>
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, James Mulvany, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65005_n1815-8">John Forbes</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65005_n1815-9">Peter Brough</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65005_n1815-10">Robert Gordon</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65005_n1815-11">Benjamin Lawranes</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65005_n1815-12">Benjamin Hack</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65005_n1815-13">Robert Cook</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65005_n1815-14">William Green</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65005_n1815-15">William Runcannon</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65005_n1815-16">Robert Griffiths</rs>
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, good and lawful men of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65005_geo1836">City of London</rs>
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aforesaid who being now<lb></lb>
here duly chosen sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord the King when how and<lb></lb>
in what manner the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65005_n1815-17">Richard Pritchard</rs>
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same to Oath say upon Oath<lb></lb>
that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65005_n1815-18">Richard Pritchard</rs>
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on the eighteenth day of September in the year aforesaid<lb></lb>
being in and on board a certain <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65005_geo1837">Barge on the River Thames</rs>
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It so happened that the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65005_n1815-19">Richard Pritchard</rs>
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accidentally casually and by misfortune fell from and out of the<lb></lb>
said<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Barge into the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65005_geo1838">River Thames</rs>
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and in and with the waters of the said<lb></lb>
River was then and there suffocated drowned of which said suffocation and drowning<lb></lb>
he the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65005_n1815-20">Richard Pritchard</rs>
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die then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon<lb></lb>
their Oath aforesaid do say that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65005_n1815-21">Richard Pritchard</rs>
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in manner and by the means<lb></lb>
aforesaid accidentally casually and by misfortune was suffocated and drowned In Witness<lb></lb>
whereof as well the said Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65005_n1815-22">Stephen Hempton</rs>
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the foreman of the said Jurors<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
on behalf of himself and the rest of his fellows in their presence have to this Inquisition set their hands and seals<lb></lb>
the day year and place first abovewritten.</p>
<p n="1816"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65005_n1816-1">Stephen Kempton</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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