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Great-Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before
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then and there lying dead, upon
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William Payne
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James Ingels
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Samuel Peach
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William Brockwell
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Rowland Ellis
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John Harding
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David
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Dore
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James Ashman
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good and lawful Man 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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Michael Robinson
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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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Michael Robinson
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on
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the Twenty third day of July in the Year aforesaid, was
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found Drowned and Suffocated in the
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River Thames
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to Wit, at
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, in the Parish aforesaid,
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within the Liberty and County aforesaid,
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the said
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Michael Robinson
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had no Marks of Violence appearing
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on his Body but how or by what Means he became
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drowned and Suffocated, no Evidence thereof doth
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appear to the Jurors
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In Witness whereof as well
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the said Coroner as the said
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