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AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at The Parish
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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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William Cooper
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Alexander Spence
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James Mole
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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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came to her
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Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That the said
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on the third
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Day of March in the Year aforesaid accidentally, casually and by misfortune
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fell into a certain but of Water at
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Tower Wharf
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and was in the Waters
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thereof then and there suffocated and drowned of which said Suffocation and
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Drowning she the said
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then and there died And
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the Jurors aforesaid
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do say That the said Bart
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the said accidentally, casually
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IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said
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William Arnold
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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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Thos. Phillips
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Wm. Arnold
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