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An Inquisition Indented taken for Our Sovereign Lord
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Peter
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Jackson
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, good and lawfull Men of the said Liberty duly chosen
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who being then and there duly Sworn and charged to inquire for Our said Lord the King, when, how, and by what
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Means the said Man Unknowncame to Death, do upon their Oath say, That the
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said Man Unknown on the Ninth day of March in the Year aforesaid, was found
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to Wit, at a certain place called
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, within the City Liberty and County aforesaid, that the said
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Man Unknown had no Marks of Violence appearing on his Body, but how or by
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what Means he became drowned and Suffocated no Evidence thereof doth appear to
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the Jurors. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said
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John Cox
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Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his said Fellows,
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in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals, the Day Year and
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Place first above written
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