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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_geo2215">Poplar and Blackwall</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_date329">Eighth 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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, by the Grace of God, Great-Britain, France, and<lb></lb>
Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2228-2">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>
a Boy unknown then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2228-3">John Stevens</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2228-4">John Davis</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2228-5">George Atkins</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2228-6">Richard Sims</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2228-7">Obadiah Woodcock</rs>
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, John<lb></lb>
Finch, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2228-8">William Randall</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2228-9">Edward Poulton</rs>
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. <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2228-10">Thomas Giddins</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2228-11">Samuel Stevens</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2228-12">John Hagan</rs>
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and John Shinglar<lb></lb>
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 Boy unknown came to his<lb></lb>
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Boy unknown on the fifth Day of July<lb></lb>
in the Year aforesaid was found drowned and suffocated in The <rs type="placeName" id="LMCOIC65102_geo2217">River Thames</rs>
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near<lb></lb>
Mr Todd's Mast House in the Hamlet aforesaid in the Parish and County aforesaid<lb></lb>
That the said Boy unknown had not any Marks of Violence appearing about him<lb></lb>
And how or by what Means he became drowned and suffocated no Evidence doth appear<lb></lb>
to the said Jurors<lb></lb>
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IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2228-13">John Stevens</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="2229"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2229-1">Thos. Phillips</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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