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to wit{</note>
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An Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the KING at the Sign of the Kings Arms in the Parish of<lb></lb>
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Chelsea in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCOIC65101_geo865">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the <rs type="date" id="LMCOIC65101_date136">Sixth Day of May in the 25 Year of the<lb></lb>
Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the third</rs>
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, by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland, KING Defender of<lb></lb>
the Faith, Etc, before <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65101_n909-3">Edward Umfreville</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMCOIC65101_occ166">Esquire</rs>
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one of the Coroners of our said Lord<lb></lb>
the KING, for the said County, on veiw of the body of <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65101_n909-4">John Hays</rs>
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then and there lying dead upon the Oath of Thomas Surr Thomas<lb></lb>
Tooth <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65101_n909-5">John Gardner</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65101_n909-6">William Jackson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65101_n909-7">John Hall</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65101_n909-8">Samuel Willan</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65101_n909-9">Joseph Walker</rs>
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, John Locker James<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCOIC65101_geo866">Feltham</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65101_n909-10">Thomas Turner</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65101_n909-11">Edward Downes</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65101_n909-12">Thomas Ratcliffe</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65101_n909-13">Thomas Boyland</rs>
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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<lb></lb>
and charged, to enquire for our said Lord the KING, when, how, and by what means the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65101_n909-14">John Hays</rs>
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came to h is Death, Do upon their Oath say,That the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65101_n909-15">John Hays</rs>
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on the twenty Seventh day of April in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the County aforesaid Accidentally<lb></lb>
Casually and by Misfortune fell into a Certain River Called the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCOIC65101_geo867">River Thames</rs>
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there Situate and in<lb></lb>
the Waters of the sd River was then and there Suffocated and Drowned of which said Suffocation and<lb></lb>
Drowning he the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65101_n909-16">John Hayes</rs>
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then and there Instantly died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon<lb></lb>
their Oath aforesaid do say that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65101_n909-17">John Hayes</rs>
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in Manner and by the Means aforesaid<lb></lb>
Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune Came to his Death and not otherwise<lb></lb>
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said, Thomas Surr the Foreman of<lb></lb>
the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows, in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their<lb></lb>
Hands and Seals the Day and Year first abovementioned</p>
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Coronr.<lb></lb>
Thos: Surr<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Foreman</p>
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