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AN INQUISITON indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at The Parish
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Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
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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 her
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Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said
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on the seventeenth Day
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of July in the Year aforesaid being in an Open Boat on the
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was then sailing towards London It so happened That
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accidentally and by Misfortune the said Boat then
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Suffocated and Drowned Of which said Suffocation and Drowning
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She the said
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then and there Died And so the Jurors
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aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do Say that the said
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in manner and by the means aforesaid Accidentally Casually and
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by Misfortune Came to her 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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