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An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to say<lb></lb>
at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo1783">Parish of Allhallows Barking</rs>
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in the Ward of Tower in London aforesaid on the <rs type="date" id="LMCLIC65007_date391">sixteenth<lb></lb>
day of December</rs>
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in the thirty fifth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third by<lb></lb>
the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the faith and so<lb></lb>
forth before <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n1709-3">Thomas Shelton</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65007_occ559">Coroner</rs>
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of our said Lord the King for the City of<lb></lb>
London and Borough of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo1784">Southwark</rs>
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on view of the body of a Man whose name to the Jurors<lb></lb>
aforesaid is as yet unknown now here lying dead by the oath of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n1709-4">John Gray</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n1709-7">William How</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n1709-8">Richard Morgan</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n1709-9">James Hasted</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n1709-10">George White</rs>
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Charles<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n1709-11">Burnett John Drake</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n1709-12">William Sheete</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n1709-13">Mark Cook</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n1709-14">William Wardell</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n1709-15">Thomas Walker</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n1709-16">William Stennett</rs>
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and Charles Styring good and lawful men of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo1785">City of London</rs>
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aforesaid who being now here duly chosen sworn and charged to inquire for our said<lb></lb>
Lord the King when how and in what manner the said Man unknown came to his<lb></lb>
death say upon their oath that the said man unknown on the fourteenth day of<lb></lb>
December in the Year aforesaid accidentally casually and by misfortune fell into the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo1786">River of Thames</rs>
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and in and with the waters of the said River was then and there<lb></lb>
suffocated and drowned of which said suffocation and drowning the said man unknown<lb></lb>
did then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that<lb></lb>
the said man unknown in manner and by the means aforesaid accidentally casually<lb></lb>
and by misfortune came to his death and not otherwise In Witness whereof as well<lb></lb>
the said Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n1709-17">John Gray</rs>
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the foreman of the said Jurors on behalf of<lb></lb>
himself and the rest of his fellows in their presence have to this Inquisition set their<lb></lb>
hands and seals the day year and place first above written.<lb></lb>
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<p n="1710"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n1710-1">John Gray</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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