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(To wit)}</note>
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AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the parish<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCOIC65102_geo1720">Saint Mary Stoke Newington</rs>
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in the County of<lb></lb>
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, the <rs type="date" id="LMCOIC65102_date269">fourth Day of April in the twenty third Year of the Reign of<lb></lb>
our sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third</rs>
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, by the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France, and<lb></lb>
Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1649-2">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_n1649-3">William Blake</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1649-4">Richard Gwinnett</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1649-9">Norman Edridge</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1649-12">William Doe</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1649-13">John Morgan</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1649-14">Alexander Oades</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1649-15">Thomas Porter</rs>
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good and lawful Men of the said Count, 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_n1649-17">William Blake</rs>
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came to his<lb></lb>
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1649-18">William Blake</rs>
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not being of sound<lb></lb>
Mind Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted on the First Day<lb></lb>
of April in the Year aforesaid himself into The <rs type="placeName" id="LMCOIC65102_geo1722">New River</rs>
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near Lordship<lb></lb>
Lane Bridge in the Parish and County aforesaid Did last and Throw By<lb></lb>
Means whereof he the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1649-19">William Blake</rs>
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was in the waters of the said River<lb></lb>
then and there suffocated and drowned Of which said Suffocation and Drowning<lb></lb>
he the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1649-20">William Blake</rs>
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then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid<lb></lb>
upon their Oath aforesaid Do say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1649-21">William Blake</rs>
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not being<lb></lb>
of sound Mind Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted in<lb></lb>
Manner and by the Means aforesaid Did drown and Kill himself</p>
<p n="1650"> IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1650-1">Richard Gwinnett</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="1651"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1651-1">Thos. Phillips</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMCOIC65102_occ375">Coroner</rs>
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<p n="1652">Richard Gwinnett<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Foreman</p>
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