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(To wit)}</note>
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AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish of<lb></lb>
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in the County of<lb></lb>
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, the <rs type="date" id="LMCOIC65102_date418">eighth Day of December in the twenty sixth Year of the Reign of<lb></lb>
our 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_n2534-2">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_n2534-3">James Small</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2534-4">Samuel Shevington</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2534-11">Thomas Spence</rs>
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Thomas Bore <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2534-12">John Powneeby</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2534-14">Samuel Pitstone</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2534-15">Edward Evans</rs>
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and James<lb></lb>
Rubidg<lb></lb>
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_n2534-16">James Small</rs>
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came to his<lb></lb>
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2534-17">James Small</rs>
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on the sixth Day of December<lb></lb>
in the Year aforesaid being on Board a Ship called The Mentor then lying in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCOIC65102_geo2616">River Thames</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="LMCOIC65102_geo2617">Bell Wharf</rs>
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in the Parish and County aforesaid It so happened that he the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2534-18">James Small</rs>
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then and there accidentally, casually and by Misfortune fell from the said Ship into The River<lb></lb>
aforesaid And was in the Waters thereof then and there suffocated and drowned. Of which said<lb></lb>
Suffocation and Drowning he the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2534-19">James Small</rs>
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then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid<lb></lb>
upon their Oath aforesaid Do say that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2534-20">James Small</rs>
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in manner and by the means aforesaid<lb></lb>
accidentally, casually and by Misfortune came to his Death</p>
<p n="2535"> IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said<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="2536"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2536-1">Thos. Phillips</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMCOIC65102_occ591">Coroner</rs>
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<p n="2537">Samuel Shevington<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Foreman</p>
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