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AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish of
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our sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third
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Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before
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one of the Coroners of our said Lord the King for the said County, on View of the Body of
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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 Man unknown came to his
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Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said man unknown on the sixth Day of
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December in the Year aforesaid was found drowned and suffocated in The
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in the Parish and County aforesaid That the said Man unknown had
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not any marks of Violence appearing about him And how or by what Means he became
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drowned and suffocated no Evidence doth appear to the said Jurors
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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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Peter Kekwick
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