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AN INQUISITION Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish of
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Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
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good and lawful Men of the said County, duly chosen, and who being then and there duly
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sworn and charged to inquire, for our said Lord the King, when, how, and by what Means, the
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said Godfrey Nicholson came to his
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Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said Godfrey Nicholson on the Twentieth
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Day of September in the Year aforesaid being a mariner on Board a certain Ship
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called The Morning Star then lying on the River Thames It so happened
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That he the said Godfrey Nicholson then and there accidentally casually and by
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Misfortune fell into the said River and was in the Waters thereof then and there
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suffocated and drowned of which said Suffocation and Drowning he the said
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Godfrey Nicholson then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath
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aforesaid Do say That the said Godfrey Nicholson in manner and by the
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Means 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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Isaac Pring
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the Foreman of the said Jurors, on the Behalf of himself and the Rest of his said Fellows, in
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their Presence, have, to this Inquisition, set their Hands and Seals, the Day and Year first
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above written.
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