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<p n="507"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> (To Wit) </note>
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in the County of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCOIC65102_geo333">Middlesex</rs>
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, the <rs type="date" id="LMCOIC65102_date4">First Day of June in the Twenty first Year of the Reign of our<lb></lb>
Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third</rs>
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, 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_n507-2">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>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n507-3">William Preston</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <lb></lb>
William Rowed, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n507-4">Anthony Carlatte</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n507-5">Samuel Shepheard</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n507-6">Thomas Street</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n507-7">Christian Awe</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n507-8">John Rippon</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n507-9">Robert Blades</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n507-10">Richard Parker</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n507-11">Thomas Laycock</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n507-12">Robert Roberts</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n507-13">John Pownesby</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n507-14">Thomas James</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 <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n507-15">William Preston</rs>
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came to his<lb></lb>
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n507-16">William Preston</rs>
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on the Thirty first<lb></lb>
Day of May in the Year aforesaid being an Infant of the Age of Ten Years or<lb></lb>
thereabouts and having gone into The <rs type="placeName" id="LMCOIC65102_geo334">River Thames</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="LMCOIC65102_geo335">Shadwell Dock</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
Parish and County aforesaid in Order to Bath himself It so happened That<lb></lb>
accidentally, casually and by Misfortune he the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n507-17">William Preston</rs>
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was in the<lb></lb>
Waters of the said River then and there suffocated and Drowned of which said<lb></lb>
Suffocation and Drowning he the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n507-18">William Preston</rs>
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then and there Died And<lb></lb>
so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said William<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCOIC65102_geo336">Preston</rs>
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in manner and by the Means aforesaid accidentally, casually and by<lb></lb>
Misfortune came to his Death</p>
<p n="508"> IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said William Rowed<lb></lb>
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="509"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n509-1">Thos. Phillips</rs>
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Wm. Rowed<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Foreman</p>
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