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An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
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King, at the
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in the Twelfth Year
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of the Regin 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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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
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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 Christopher Spence came to
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his Death do upon their Oath say, That the said Christopher Spence on the
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Twenty ninth day of June in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish and in
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the Liberty and County aforesaid, to wit, at
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the River there to bath himself, It so happened that Accidentally
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Casually and by Misfortune, he the said
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of which said Suffocation and Drowing he the said Christopher Spence
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then and there instantly died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their
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Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Christopher Spence, in Manner
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and by the Means aforesaid Accidentally casually and by Misfortune
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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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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 and
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Place first above written
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