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AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the Hamlet of
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath 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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came to his
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Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said
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on the Eleventh Day of
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December in the Year aforesaid being intoxicated with strong Liquor and having accidentally
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fallen down Stairs in the Dwelling House of
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situate in the Hamlet aforesaid
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in the Parish and County aforesaid It so happened That he the said
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by the Fumes arising from the said Liquor then and there choaked, suffocated and stifled
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then and there
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died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say That the said Thomas
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King in manner and by the Means aforesaid accidentally, casually and by Misfortune
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came to his Death
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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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