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William Rowed,
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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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came to his
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Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said
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on the Thirty first
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Day of May in the Year aforesaid being an Infant of the Age of Ten Years or
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thereabouts and having gone into The
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River Thames
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in the
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Parish and County aforesaid in Order to Bath himself It so happened That
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accidentally, casually and by Misfortune he the said
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Waters of the said River then and there suffocated and Drowned of which said
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Suffocation and Drowning he the said
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then and there Died And
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so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said William
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in manner and by the Means aforesaid accidentally, casually and by
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Misfortune came to his Death
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IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said William Rowed
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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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