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who being now here duly chosen sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord the King
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on a certain ladder there one end of which said ladder was placed on a certain wharf there situate called
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and the other end on a certain vessell lying on the river of Thomas It so happened that
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the said William Denney accidentally casually and by misfortune fell from and off the said ladder
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into the said River and in and with the waters of the said River was then and their suffocated
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did then and
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there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said William
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Denney in manner and by the means aforesaid accidentally casually casually and by misfortune
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was suffocated and drowned In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Robert
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Artley the foreman of the said Jurors on 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 year and place first
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above written.
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Robert Artley
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