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(To wit)}</note>
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AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at <rs type="placeName" id="LMCOIC65102_geo2306">The Precinct</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCOIC65102_geo2307">Saint Catherine</rs>
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in the County of<lb></lb>
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, the <rs type="date" id="LMCOIC65102_date349">Twelfth Day of August 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, of Great-Britain, France, and<lb></lb>
Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2284-2">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>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2284-3">Griffith Griffiths</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2284-4">John Hackworth</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2284-5">John Bennett</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2284-6">William Hall</rs>
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, Jethre Weather stone, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2284-7">Philip Bendernough</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2284-8">Isaac Ellard</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2284-9">William King</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2284-10">Francis King</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2284-11">James Randall</rs>
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, William<lb></lb>
Davis, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2284-12">Jacob Cook</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2284-13">Joshua Nunn</rs>
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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 <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2284-14">Griffith Griffiths</rs>
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came to his<lb></lb>
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2284-15">Griffith Griffiths</rs>
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on the seventh Day<lb></lb>
of August in the Year aforesaid being in an Open Boat on the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCOIC65102_geo2309">River Thames</rs>
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It so happened<lb></lb>
That he the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2284-16">Griffith Griffiths</rs>
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then and there accidentally casually and by Misfortune<lb></lb>
fell from the said Boat into the River aforesaid And was in the Waters thereof then and<lb></lb>
there suffocated and drowned Of which said Suffocation and Drowning he the said Griffith<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2284-17">Griffiths then</rs>
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and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say<lb></lb>
That the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2284-18">Griffith Griffiths</rs>
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in manner and by the means aforesaid accidentally Casually<lb></lb>
and by Misfortune came to his Death</p>
<p n="2285"> IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2285-1">John Hackworth</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="2286"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2286-1">Thos. Phillips</rs>
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John Hackworth<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Foreman</p>
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