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An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
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King, at the Parish of
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in the Tenth Year
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of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great-Britain,
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France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before
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Thomas Prickard
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, Gentleman,
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Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of
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Joseph Drake
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
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Charles
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Shepherd
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William Harrison
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William Mickin
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David Dinsman
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Robert Pettit
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John
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Probin
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William Bartlett
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George Stevens
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Robert Whithead
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Thomas Lawrence
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John
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Cook
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Thomas Bartholomew
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William Dibley
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Henry Parker
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Richard Ireland
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John
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Stewart
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James Garden
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George Brownbridge
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, good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
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chosen, who being then and there duly sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the
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King, when, how, and by what Means the said
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Joseph Drake
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came to
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h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said
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Joseph Drake
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on the Tenth
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day of January in the Year aforesaid being in a Hackney Coach and
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driving from
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Drury Lane
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into
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in the Parish aforesaid
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within the Liberty and County aforesaid, and being then and there
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Intoxicated and in Liquor, It so happened that the said
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Joseph Drake
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was then and there in the said Coach Suffocated and Strangled, of which
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said Suffocation and Strangling he the said
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Joseph Drake
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then and
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there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do
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say, that the said
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Joseph Drake
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in manner and by the means aforesaid
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came to his Death, and not otherwise, In Witness whereof as well
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the said Coroner as the said
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Charles Shephard
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Foreman of the said
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Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows, in their
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>
presence have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day
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Year and Place first above written
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Tho. Prickard
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Coroner
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Chas Shephard
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Foreman
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