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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 Twelfth 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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Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of
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a Man Unknown then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
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John
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John Fenwick
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John Meredith
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Jackson
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Ezekiel Elliot
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Carr
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William Jones
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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 Man unknown came to
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h is Death, do upon their Oath say , That the said Man unknown on the
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Sixth day of May in the Year aforesaid, was found Drowned and
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Suffocated in the Serpentine River in
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in the Parish
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aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, That the said
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Man unknown had no Marks of Violence appearing on his Body,
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but how or by what Means he became Drowned, no Evidence thereof
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doth appear to the Jurors. In Witness whereof as well the
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said Coroner, as the said John Kightley Foreman of the said Jurors,
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on the behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows, in their presence,
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have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day Year
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and Place first above written
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John
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Foreman
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