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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="LMCLIC65009_geo1150">parish of Allhallows the less</rs>
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in the ward of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65009_geo1151">Dowgate</rs>
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in London aforesaid<lb></lb>
on the <rs type="date" id="LMCLIC65009_date83">twelfth day of September in the thirty sixth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord<lb></lb>
George the third by the grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the<lb></lb>
faith and so forth</rs>
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before <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65009_n1243-3">Thomas Shelton</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65009_occ377">Coroner</rs>
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of our said Lord the King for the<lb></lb>
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and Borough of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65009_geo1153">Southwark</rs>
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on view of the body of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65009_n1243-4">Aaron Sweets</rs>
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now here<lb></lb>
lying dead by the oath of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65009_n1243-5">James Mote</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65009_n1243-6">Robert Pratt</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65009_n1243-7">Charles Stewart</rs>
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Henry<lb></lb>
Normand <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65009_n1243-9">John Raine</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65009_n1243-10">Evan Jones</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65009_n1243-11">Robert Dodd</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65009_n1243-12">John Combs</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65009_n1243-13">William Thompson</rs>
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Thomas<lb></lb>
Davis and <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65009_n1243-14">John Wainwright</rs>
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good and lawful men of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65009_geo1154">City of London</rs>
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aforesaid<lb></lb>
who being now her duly chosen sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord the<lb></lb>
King when how and in what manner the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65009_n1243-15">Aaron Sweets</rs>
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came to his death<lb></lb>
say upon their oath that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65009_n1243-16">Aaron Sweets</rs>
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on the tenth day of September in<lb></lb>
the year aforesaid being bathing in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65009_geo1155">River of Thames</rs>
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It so happened that the said Aaron Sweets accidentally casually and by<lb></lb>
misfortune sunk beneath the waters of the said River and in and with the waters of<lb></lb>
the said River was then and suffocated and drowned of which said suffocation and<lb></lb>
drowning the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65009_n1243-17">Aaron Sweets</rs>
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die then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid<lb></lb>
upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65009_n1243-18">Aaron Sweets</rs>
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accidentally casually<lb></lb>
and by misfortune was suffocated and drowned In Witness whereof as well the<lb></lb>
said Coroner as the said James Mote 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<lb></lb>
set their hands and seals the day year and place first abovewritten.</p>
<p n="1244"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65009_n1244-1">James Mote</rs>
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