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to wit.</note>
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An Inquisition indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King at the Hamlet of<lb></lb>
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in the Parish of Saint Dunstan Stepney in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCOIC65102_geo2648">County of Middlesex</rs>
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the <rs type="date" id="LMCOIC65102_date426">twenty fourth day of December in the twenty sixth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord<lb></lb>
George the third</rs>
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, by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of<lb></lb>
the Faith and so forth before <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2566-3">Thomas Phillips</rs>
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one of the Coroners of our said Lord the King<lb></lb>
on view of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2566-4">Richard Sims</rs>
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then and there lying dead upon the Oath of John<lb></lb>
Porter Thomas Pattinden <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2566-5">John Herbert</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2566-7">John Warman</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2566-8">John Ham</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2566-9">Thomas Green</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2566-10">Peter Davy</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2566-11">Henry Lawman</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2566-12">John Barnett</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2566-13">Benjamin Lamden</rs>
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John<lb></lb>
Cheefer, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2566-14">James Thornton</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2566-15">John Green</rs>
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good and lawful Men of the said County, duly<lb></lb>
chosen, and who being then and there duly sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord<lb></lb>
the King, when, how, and by what means, the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2566-16">Richard Sims</rs>
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came to his Death, do<lb></lb>
upon their Oath, say That the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2566-17">Richard Sims</rs>
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on the Twenty third Day of<lb></lb>
December in the Year aforesaid being on a Deal Board which he had laid between<lb></lb>
the Fore Channell and the Port of a Ship called The <rs type="placeName" id="LMCOIC65102_geo2649">Southampton</rs>
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then lying in the<lb></lb>
rect Dock at <rs type="placeName" id="LMCOIC65102_geo2650">Blackwall</rs>
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Yard in the Hamlet aforesaid in the Parish and County<lb></lb>
aforesaid It so happened That he the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2566-18">Richard Sims</rs>
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then and there accidentally<lb></lb>
casually and by Misfortune fell from thence into the said Dock And was in the<lb></lb>
Waters therein contained then and there suffocated and drowned of which said<lb></lb>
Suffocation and Drowning he the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2566-19">Richard Sims</rs>
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then and there died And so<lb></lb>
the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2566-20">Richard Sims</rs>
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in manner and by the Means aforesaid accidentally casually and by Misfortune<lb></lb>
came to his Death</p>
<p n="2567">In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2567-1">John Porter</rs>
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the Foreman<lb></lb>
of the said Jurors, on the Behalf of himself and the Rest of his said Fellows in their<lb></lb>
presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals, the Day and year<lb></lb>
first above written.</p>
<p n="2568"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2568-1">Thos. Phillips</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMCOIC65102_occ599">Coroner</rs>
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<p n="2569"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2569-1">John Porter</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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