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An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to say at the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65009_geo883">parish of Saint Dunstan in the East</rs>
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in the ward of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65009_geo884">Tower in London</rs>
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aforesaid on the <rs type="date" id="LMCLIC65009_date63">second day of<lb></lb>
July in the thirty sixth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third by the grace of God<lb></lb>
of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the faith and so forth</rs>
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before <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65009_n916-2">Thomas Shelton</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65009_occ278">Gentleman</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65009_occ279">Coroner</rs>
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of our said Lord the King for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65009_geo885">City of London</rs>
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and Borough of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65009_geo886">Southwark</rs>
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on view<lb></lb>
of the body of a man whose name to the Jurors is as yet unknown now here lying dead by the<lb></lb>
oath of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65009_n916-3">John Gray</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65009_n916-4">John Jones</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65009_n916-5">Joseph Fennell</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65009_n916-6">James Lamb</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65009_n916-7">Samuel Webb</rs>
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James Blanche John<lb></lb>
Drake <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65009_n916-8">William How</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65009_n916-9">John Crane</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65009_n916-10">William Harris</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65009_n916-11">Stephen Newman</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65009_n916-12">William Hurst</rs>
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good<lb></lb>
and lawful men of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65009_geo887">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 man whose<lb></lb>
name to the Jurors aforesaid is unknown came to his death say upon their oath that the said<lb></lb>
man whose name to the Jurors aforesaid is unknown then lately before accidentally casually<lb></lb>
and by misfortune fell into the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65009_geo888">River of Thames</rs>
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and in and with the waters of the said River<lb></lb>
was then and there suffocated and drowned of which said suffocation and drowning the said<lb></lb>
man whose name to the Jurors aforesaid is unknown did then and there die And so the<lb></lb>
Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid accidentally casually and by misfortune came to his death<lb></lb>
and not otherwise. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65009_n916-13">John Gray</rs>
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the foreman<lb></lb>
of the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his fellows in their presence have<lb></lb>
to this Inquisition set their hands and seals the day year and place first above written<lb></lb>
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Gray</p>
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