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AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
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Williams and William Rowed.
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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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Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said
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on the Fourteenth Day of
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December in the Year aforesaid being in a Ship called The Henrietta then lying in The
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from the said Ship to a certain other Ship then lying there called the Elizabeth It so happened that
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he the said
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suffocated and drowned, Of which said Suffocation and Drowning he the said
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then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said
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in manner and of
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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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