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May in<obscured></obscured>
Reign<obscured></obscured>
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GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France, and<lb></lb>
Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n489-1">Thomas Phillips</rs>
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one of the Coroners of our said Lord the King for the said County, on View of the Body of <lb></lb>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n489-3">Archibald Ramage</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n489-4">John Porter</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n489-5">John Hyder</rs>
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, Edward Basett, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n489-6">James Phillips</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n489-7">George South</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n489-8">Thomas Coulston</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n489-9">Robert Goddard</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n489-10">Kimbel Easley</rs>
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, Henry Crookford, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n489-11">Thomas Oddy</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n489-12">William Trippas</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n489-13">Henry Field</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n489-14">William Edwards</rs>
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good and lawful Men of the said County, duly chosen, and who being then and there duly<lb></lb>
sworn and charged to inquire, for our said Lord the King, when, how, and by what Means, the<lb></lb>
said John Bedding came to his<lb></lb>
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n489-15">John Bedding</rs>
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on the Twenty second<lb></lb>
Day of April in the Year aforesaid being an Infant of the Age of Fourteen years<lb></lb>
or thereabouts and being at Play on certain Pieces of Timber then lying on the River<lb></lb>
Thames at <rs type="placeName" id="LMCOIC65102_geo321">Limehouse</rs>
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Hole in the Hamlet aforesaid in the Parish and County aforesaid It so happened That he the said John<lb></lb>
Bedding then and there accidentally casually and by Misfortune fell from the said<lb></lb>
Timber into The River aforesaid and was in the Waters thereof then and there suffocated<lb></lb>
and Drowned Of which said Suffocation and Drowning he the said John Bedding then<lb></lb>
and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n489-16">John Bedding</rs>
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in Manner and by the Means aforesaid accidentally casually<lb></lb>
and by Misfortune Came to his Death</p>
<p n="490"> IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n490-1">Archibald Ramage</rs>
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the Foreman of the said Jurors, on the Behalf of himself and the Rest of his said Fellows, in<lb></lb>
their Presence, have, to this Inquisition, set their Hands and Seals, the Day and Year first<lb></lb>
above written.</p>
<p n="491"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n491-1">Thos. Phillips</rs>
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