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An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at<lb></lb>
London that is to say at the parish of Saint Dunstan in the East in the ward of Tower<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65008_geo37">London</rs>
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aforesaid on the <rs type="date" id="LMCLIC65008_date13">eighth day of January</rs>
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in the thirty fifth year of the reign<lb></lb>
of our Sovereign Lord George the third by the Grace of God of Great Britain France<lb></lb>
and Ireland King Defender of the faith and so forth before <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n43-2">Thomas Shelton</rs>
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of our Said Lord the King for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65008_geo38">City of London</rs>
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on view of the body of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n43-3">Edward Sayers</rs>
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now here lying dead by the oath of<lb></lb>
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good and lawful<lb></lb>
men of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65008_geo40">City of London</rs>
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aforesaid who being now here duly chosen sworn and charged<lb></lb>
to inquire for our said Lord the King when how and in what manner the said Edward<lb></lb>
Sayers came to his death say upon their oath that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n43-18">Edward Sayers</rs>
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on the fifth<lb></lb>
day of January in the year aforesaid being in and on board of a certain Vessell then lying and<lb></lb>
being on the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65008_geo41">River of Thames</rs>
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It so happened that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n43-19">Edward Sayers</rs>
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accidentally<lb></lb>
casually and by misfortune fell from and out of the said Vessel into the said River of<lb></lb>
Thames and in and with the waters of the said River was then and there suffocated<lb></lb>
and drowned of which said suffocation and drowning the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n43-20">Edward Sayers</rs>
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did then and<lb></lb>
there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n43-21">Edward Sayers</rs>
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in manner and by the means aforesaid accidentally casually and by<lb></lb>
Misfortune was suffocated and drowned In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n43-22">John Gray</rs>
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the foreman of the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his fellows<lb></lb>
in their presence have to this Inquisition set their hands and seals the day year and place first<lb></lb>
above written.</p>
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Gray</rs>
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