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Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before
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William Newman
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John Cettle
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James Baker
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John Morgan
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Thomas Burgan
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Thomas Rigby
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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 having gone into a certain River called The
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in the Parish and County aforesaid
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in Order to Bath himself It so happened That accidentally, casually and by
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Misfortune He the said
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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 WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said
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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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