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(To wit)}</note>
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AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at The Hamlet<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCOIC65102_geo2187">Ratcliff</rs>
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in the Parish of Saint Dunstan Stepney in the County of<lb></lb>
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, the <rs type="date" id="LMCOIC65102_date323">fourth Day of July in the Twenty fifth Year of the Reign of<lb></lb>
our sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third</rs>
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, and so forth, before <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2203-2">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>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <lb></lb>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2203-5">John Fryer</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2203-6">John Smith</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2203-7">John Woodroff</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2203-8">Henry Long</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2203-9">Thomas Bryant</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2203-11">John Fairfax</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2203-12">John Bickell</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2203-13">John Herbert</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2203-14">Edward Swanston</rs>
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, Edward Pont<lb></lb>
and <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2203-15">Edward Cooke</rs>
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good and lawful Men of the said County, 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_n2203-16">John Sykes</rs>
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came to his<lb></lb>
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2203-17">John Sykes</rs>
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on the Twenty ninth Day of<lb></lb>
June in the Year aforesaid being in an Open Boat on the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCOIC65102_geo2189">River Thames</rs>
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near Stone<lb></lb>
Stairs in the Hamlet aforesaid in the Parish and County aforesaid It so happened That he<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2203-18">John Sykes</rs>
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then and there accidentally, casually and by Misfortune fell into<lb></lb>
the said River And was in the Waters thereof then and there suffocated and drowned of<lb></lb>
which said Suffocation and Drowning he the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2203-19">John Sykes</rs>
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then and there died And<lb></lb>
so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2203-20">John Sykes</rs>
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in Manner<lb></lb>
and by the means aforesaid accidentally, casually and by misfortune came to his Death<lb></lb>
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IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2203-21">John Brookes</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="2204"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2204-1">Thos. Phillips</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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