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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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a Man called John then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
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French,
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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 Man called John came to his
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Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said Man called John on the Sixteenth
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and being endeavouring to get on Board a Lighter to the Jurors aforesaid unknown which
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was then lying there It so happened That accidentally, casually and by misfortune he
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the said Man called John then
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The River aforesaid And was in the
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IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said
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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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Jno: Abrams
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