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AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
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good and lawful Men of the said County, duly chosen, and who being then and there duly
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sworn and charged to inquire, for our said Lord the King, when, how, and by what Means, the
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Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said
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on the Twenty ninth Day of
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October in the Year aforesaid being an Board a Ship called The Alfred then lying in the River
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Thames at
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in the Parish and County aforesaid and being on the Quarter of the
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said Ship endeavouring to clear a Barge from the same It so happened That he the said Thomas
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Cooper then and there accidentally casually and by misfortune fell from the said Quarter of the
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drowned of which said Suffocation and Drowning he the said
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And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said
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IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said
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the Foreman of the said Jurors, on the Behalf of himself and the Rest of his said Fellows, in
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their Presence, have, to this Inquisition, set their Hands and Seals, the Day and Year first
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Robert Mather
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