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(To wit)}</note>
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An Inquisition indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King at the Parish<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCOIC65102_geo2365">Saint Ann</rs>
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in the County of<lb></lb>
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, the <rs type="date" id="LMCOIC65102_date365">sixth Day of September in the twenty fifth Year of the Reign of our<lb></lb>
Sovereign Lord George the Third</rs>
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by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland<lb></lb>
King Defender of the Faith and so forth before <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2332-3">Thomas Phillips</rs>
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one of the<lb></lb>
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of our said Lord the King for the said County on View of the Body of Hans<lb></lb>
Ericksonthen and there lying dead upon the Oath of John Drem, Thomas<lb></lb>
Eddleston, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2332-4">Thomas Cook</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2332-5">Thomas Harding</rs>
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Conningham, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2332-6">Henry Bradley</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2332-7">Nathaniel Dale</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2332-8">John Tudsberry</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2332-9">John Shelton</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2332-10">Thomas Scott</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2332-11">Stephen Croskwy</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2332-12">John Milnes</rs>
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, William<lb></lb>
Meredith, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2332-13">Thomas Underhill</rs>
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Howard, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2332-14">Robert Donsbery</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2332-15">William Farthing</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2332-16">John Spurrier</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_n2332-17">Hans Erickson</rs>
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came to his Death do upon their Oath say That<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2332-18">Hans Erickson</rs>
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on the Thirty first Day of August in the Year aforesaid being on Board a<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMCOIC65102_occ516">Lighter</rs>
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to the said Jurors unknown then lying in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCOIC65102_geo2367">River Thames</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="LMCOIC65102_geo2368">Lime house</rs>
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Hole in<lb></lb>
the Hamlet of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCOIC65102_geo2369">Poplar and Blackwall</rs>
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in the Parish of Saint Dunstan Stepney in the County aforesaid<lb></lb>
and Endeavouring to get out the said Lighter It so happened That he the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2332-19">Hans Erickson</rs>
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then<lb></lb>
and there accidentally casually and by Misfortune fell into the said River and was in the<lb></lb>
Waters thereof then and there suffocated and drowned. Of which said Suffocation and Drowning<lb></lb>
he the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2332-20">Hans Erickson</rs>
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then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid<lb></lb>
Do say that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2332-21">Hans Erickson</rs>
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in manner and by the Means aforesaid accidentally casually<lb></lb>
and by misfortune came to his Death<lb></lb>
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In Witness whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said John Drom<lb></lb>
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="2333"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2333-1">Thos. Phillips</rs>
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<p n="2334">John Drom<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Foreman</p>
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