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An Inquisition intended taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at The Parish of
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in the
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Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the third, by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France and Ireland, KING, Defender of
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the Faith, Etc. before Edward Umfreville one of the Coroners of Our said Lord
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the KING, for the said County, on view of the body of
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an Infant
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
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John Makie
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Isaac Morris
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Day,
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Jones
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good and lawful Men of the said County duly chosen as by Law required, and who being then and there duly sworn
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and charged to enquire for our said Lord the KING, when, how, and by what means the said
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came to h is Death, Do upon their Oath say, That the said Robert
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Burk being an Infant of the Age of Nine Years on thereabouts on the
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Twenty fourth Day of April in the Year aforesaid being playing on a
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in the Parish and County
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aforesaid It so happened that he the said
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then and there
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accidentally, casually and by Misfortune fell into the said River
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And was in the waters thereof then and there suffocated and drowned
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Of which said Suffocation and Drowning he the said
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then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid
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Do say That the said
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in manner and by the Means
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aforesaid accidentally, casually and by misfortune Came to his Death
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In Witness whereof, as well the said Coroner, as the said
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the Foreman of
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the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows, in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their
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Hands and Seals the Day and Year first abovementioned
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E:Umfreville
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Coronr.
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Thos Scarlett
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