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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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good and lawful Men of the said County, duly chosen, and who being then and there duly
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sworn and charged in 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 Thirteenth Day of
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December in the Year aforesaid being Sailing in an open wherry on the
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in the Parish of Saint Dunstan Stepney in
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the County aforesaid It so happened That the said Wherry then and there accidentally
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casually and by Misfortune sunk into The River aforesaid By Means whereof he the said
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Suffocation and Drowning he the said
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then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid
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upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said
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in Manner and by the Means
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aforesaid accidentally casually and by Misfortune 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 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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