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AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at The Parish
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of Saint Luke Chelsea in the County of
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Eighth Day of July in the Twenty fifth Year of the Reign of
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our sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third
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Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before
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one of the Coroners of our said Lord the King for the said County, on View of the Body of
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
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Long,
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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 seventh Day of July
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in the Year aforesaid accidentally, casually and by misfortune fell into The River
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in the Parish and County aforesaid and was in
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the Waters thereof then and there suffocated and drowned. Of which said Suffocation
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and Drowning he the said
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then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid
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upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said
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in Manner and by the
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means aforesaid accidentally casually and by misfortune came to his Death
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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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