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AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at
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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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Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said
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on the seventh Day
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of August in the Year aforesaid being in an Open Boat on the
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fell from the said Boat into the River aforesaid And was in the Waters thereof then and
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there suffocated and drowned Of which said Suffocation and Drowning he the said Griffith
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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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