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AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at <obscured></obscured>
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in the County of<lb></lb>
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, the Twenty Second<obscured></obscured>
in the Twenty first Year of the Reign of our<lb></lb>
Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, Great-Britain, France, and<lb></lb>
Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n543-3">Thomas Phillips</rs>
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one of the Coroners of our said Lord the King for the said County, on View of the Body of <lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n543-4">Herman Wessells</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <lb></lb>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n543-6">Miles Dudley</rs>
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, John Pouncely, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n543-7">Thomas Street</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n543-8">Samuel Shepheard</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n543-9">Charles Mollin</rs>
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, James<lb></lb>
Thatcher <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n543-10">Charles Folkes</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n543-11">David Nightingale</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n543-12">George Kitchen</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n543-13">William Cooper</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n543-14">Thomas Laycock</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
William Rowed<lb></lb>
good and lawful Men of the said County, duly chosen, and who being then and there duly<lb></lb>
sworn and charged to inquire, for our said Lord the King, when, how, and by what Means, the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n543-15">Herman Wessells</rs>
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came to his<lb></lb>
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n543-16">Herman Wessells</rs>
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on the Nineteenth<lb></lb>
Day of June in the Year aforesaid being a <rs type="occupation" id="LMCOIC65102_occ47">Mariner</rs>
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.belonging to a certain Ship<lb></lb>
called The Maria Catherina then <rs type="placeName" id="LMCOIC65102_geo374">lying on the River Thames</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="LMCOIC65102_geo375">Saint Catherines<lb></lb>
Stairs</rs>
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in the Precinct of Saint Catherine in the County aforesaid and being<lb></lb>
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to go up the Side of the said Ship It so happened That he the said<lb></lb>
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then and there accidentally casually and by Misfortune fell<lb></lb>
into the said River and was in the Waters thereof then and there suffocated<lb></lb>
and drowned of which said Suffocation and Drowning He the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n543-19">Herman Wessells</rs>
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then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid<lb></lb>
Do say That the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n543-20">Herman Wessells</rs>
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in Manner and by the Means aforesaid<lb></lb>
accidentally, casually and by Misfortune Came to his Death</p>
<p n="544"> IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n544-1">Christian Awe</rs>
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the Foreman of the said Jurors, on the Behalf of himself and the Rest of his said Fellows, in<lb></lb>
their Presence, have, to this Inquisition, set their Hands and Seals, the Day and Year first<lb></lb>
above written.</p>
<p n="545"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n545-1">Thos. Phillips</rs>
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Christian Awe<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Foreman</p>
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