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An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to say<lb></lb>
at the parish of Saint Mary at Hill in the Ward of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo1002">Billinsgate</rs>
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in London aforesaid on the <rs type="date" id="LMCLIC65007_date237">twenty fourth day<lb></lb>
of July</rs>
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in the thirty fourth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third by the Grace of God of Great<lb></lb>
Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the faith and so forth before <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n1022-4">Thomas Shelton</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65007_occ315">Coroner</rs>
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of our said Lord the King for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo1003">City of London</rs>
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and Borough of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo1004">Southwark</rs>
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on view of the body of <lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n1022-5">William Newman</rs>
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now here lying dead by oath of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n1022-6">Charles Brown</rs>
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good and lawful men of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo1005">City of London</rs>
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aforesaid who being now here duly chosen sworn and<lb></lb>
charged to inquire for our said Lord the King when how and in what manner the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n1022-7">William Newman</rs>
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came to his death say upon their oath that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n1022-8">William Newman</rs>
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on the nineteenth day of July<lb></lb>
in the year aforesaid accidentally casually and by misfortune fell into the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo1006">River of Thames</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
in and with the waters of the said River was then and there suffocated and drowned of which said<lb></lb>
suffocation and drowning the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n1022-9">William Newman</rs>
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did then and there die. In Witness<lb></lb>
whereof as well the said Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n1022-10">Charles Brown</rs>
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the foreman of the said Jurors on behalf<lb></lb>
of himself and the rest of his fellows in their presence have to this Inquisition set their hands and<lb></lb>
seals the day year and place first abovewritten</p>
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Foreman</p>
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