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AN INQUISITION Indented Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at
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Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
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Wealthale,
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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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said Henry Wix came to his
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Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said
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on the Fourth Day of
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June in the Year aforesaid being in an open Boat on the
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in the County aforesaid It so happened That the said Boat accidentally
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casually and by Misfortune overset and Tunk into The said River and the said
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was in the Waters thereof then and there suffocated and drowned of which
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said Suffocation and Drowning he the said Henry Wix then and there died And as the
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Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said Henry Wix and
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Manker and by the Means aforesaid accidentally casually and by Misfortune
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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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