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An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to<lb></lb>
say at the parish of Saint Mary at Hill in the Ward of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65008_geo815">Billinsgate</rs>
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in London aforesaid<lb></lb>
on the <rs type="date" id="LMCLIC65008_date197">twenty fifth day of June</rs>
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in the thirty fifth year of the reign of our Sovereign<lb></lb>
Lord George the third by the grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King<lb></lb>
Defender of the faith and so forth before <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n878-2">Thomas Shelton</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65008_occ252">Coroner</rs>
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of our said Lord<lb></lb>
the King for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65008_geo816">City of London</rs>
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and Borough of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65008_geo817">Southwark</rs>
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on view of the body of Richard<lb></lb>
Jones now here lying dead by the oath of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n878-3">William Byford</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n878-4">Thomas Phillips</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n878-5">Simon Cook</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n878-6">Thomas Goff</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n878-7">John Coleman</rs>
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Samuel Brises Phillip Holdsworth Jonathan Bates James<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65008_geo818">Stead</rs>
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Richard Dickins <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n878-8">George Keen</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n878-9">Edmund Bell</rs>
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and Richard Locken good and lawful<lb></lb>
men of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65008_geo819">City of London</rs>
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aforesaid who being now here duly chosen sworn and charged<lb></lb>
to inquire for our said Lord the King when how and in what manner the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n878-10">Richard Jones</rs>
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came to his death say upon their Oath that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n878-11">Richard Jones</rs>
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on the twenty fourth day of June in the year aforesaid being employed in the Regging of<lb></lb>
a certain Vessell called the favourite then lying and being on the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65008_geo820">river of Thames</rs>
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It so<lb></lb>
happened that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n878-12">Richard Jones</rs>
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accidentally casually and by misfortune fell<lb></lb>
from and out of the regging of the said Vessell into the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65008_geo821">River of Thames</rs>
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and in<lb></lb>
and with the waters of the said River was then and there suffocated and drowned<lb></lb>
of which said suffocation and drowning the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n878-13">Richard Jones</rs>
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did then and there<lb></lb>
die In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n878-14">William Byford</rs>
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the foreman of the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his fellows in<lb></lb>
their presence have to this Inquisition set their hands and seals the day year and<lb></lb>
place first above written.</p>
<p n="879">Wm. Byford<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Foreman</p>
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