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wenth Day of
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Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the third, by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France and Ireland, KING, Defender of
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the Faith, Etc. before Edward Umfreville one of the Coroners of Our said Lord
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good and lawful Men of the said County duly chosen as by Law required, and who being then and there duly sworn
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and charged to enquire for our said lord the KING, when, how, and by what means the said
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came to h is Death, Do upon their Oath say, That the said Joseph
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Fletcher on the Sixth Day of March in the Year aforesaid being
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an Infant of the Age of Seven Years or thereabouts And being standing
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in the Road or Highway in the Parish and County It so happened That
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a certain Cart which was then passing along the said Highway then
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and there accidentally casually and by Misfortune beat the said Joseph
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Fletcher to the Ground And the Off Wheel of the said Cart did then and
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there Pass upon and over the Body of him the said
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Divers Mortal Bruises of which said Mortal Bruises he the said
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then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon
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their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said
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in Manner
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and by the means aforesaid accidentally casually And by Misfortune
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In Witness whereof, as well as the said Coroner, as the said
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the Foreman of
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the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows, in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their
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Hands and Seals the Day and Year first abovementioned
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E: Umfreville
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Coronr.
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