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AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the parish
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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 John Scriber came to his
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Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said John Scriber on the Twenty Second
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Day of July in the Year aforesaid having gone into a Gravel Pit of Water Scituate in Mr Prichards
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in the Parish and County aforesaid in Order to Bathe himself It so happened
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the Waters of the said Gravel Pit then and there suffocated and Drowned Of which
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said Suffocation and Drowning he the said John Scriber then and there died And so the
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Jurors aforesaid when the Oath aforesaid Do say That the said John Scriber in
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Manner and by the Means aforesaid accidentally, casually and by Misfortune came to his
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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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