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on the twenty seventh day of November in the thirty fifth year of the reign of our Sovereign
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Lord George the third by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King
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and charged to inquire for our said Lord the King when how and in what manner the said
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on the seventeenth
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day of November in the year aforesaid being much intoxicated with liquor accidentally casually and
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by misfortune fell down from the Landing place of a certain two pair of stairs room in the
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dwelling house of Francis Spenser Hobbs situate in the Parish and Ward aforesaid in London
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aforesaid to and against the landing place of the one pair of stairs room of and belonging to the
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of which said mortal contussion he
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and languishing did live on which said twenty seventh day of November in the year aforesaid the
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did die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said
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in manner and by the means aforsaid accidentally casually and by misfortune came to his
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death and not otherwise In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Thomas
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Swain the foreman of the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his fellows in their
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presence have to this Inquisition set their hands and seals the day Year and place first
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