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AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at The Parish
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
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Crowhurst,
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Mason
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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 his
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Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said
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on the Eleventh Day of
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June in the Year aforesaid was found drowned and suffocated in The
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in The County aforesaid. That the said
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had not any Marks of Violence
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appearing about him And how or by what Means he became drowned and suffocated no
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Evidence doth appear to the said Jurors
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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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