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An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to say
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in the Ward of Tower in London aforesaid on the
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in the thirty fifth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third by
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the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the faith and so
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aforesaid is as yet unknown now here lying dead by the oath of
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aforesaid who being now here duly chosen sworn and charged to inquire for our said
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Lord the King when how and in what manner the said Man unknown came to his
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death say upon their oath that the said man unknown on the fourteenth day of
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December in the Year aforesaid accidentally casually and by misfortune fell into the
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and in and with the waters of the said River was then and there
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suffocated and drowned of which said suffocation and drowning the said man unknown
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did then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that
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the said man unknown in manner and by the means aforesaid accidentally casually
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and by misfortune came to his death and not otherwise In Witness whereof as well
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the foreman of the said Jurors on behalf of
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himself and the rest of his fellows in their presence have to this Inquisition set their
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