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AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at The Parish
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, by the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France, and
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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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a man unknown 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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said Man unknown came to his
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Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said man unknown on the Eighteenth Day of
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July in the Year aforesaid was found drowned and suffocated at
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Stairs in the
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Parish and County aforesaid. That the said man unknown had not any marks of
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Violence appearing about him And how or by what means he became drowned and
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suffocated no 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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above written.
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