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City and Liberty, On View of the Body of
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Thomas
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Nickson
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William Tweed
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William
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, good and lawfull Men of the said Liberty duly
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Chosen who being then and there duly Sworn and Charged to inquire for our said Lord the King when
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how, and by what Means the said
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Thomas Taylor
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came to his Death do upon their Oath
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say, That the said Thomas as Taylor on the Eleventh day of May in the Year aforesaid
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being in a certain Vessel loaden with Coals and lying in the
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in the
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Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, And that it so happened
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that the said
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Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune fell out of and from
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the said Vessel into the said
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, and in the Waters thereof was then and there
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Suffocated and Drowned, of which said Suffocation and Drowning he the said
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Thomas
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then and there instantly died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath
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aforesaid do say, that the said
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Thomas Taylor
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Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune
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in Manner and by the Means aforesaid, came to his Death, and not otherwise.
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In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said James Wear
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Foreman of the said Jurors on the behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows, in
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