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(To wit)} </note>
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AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the Hamlet<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCOIC65102_geo2729">Ratcliff</rs>
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in the Parish of Saint Dunstan Stepney in the County of<lb></lb>
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, the <rs type="date" id="LMCOIC65102_date444">eighth Day of February in the twenty sixth Year of the Reign of<lb></lb>
our sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third</rs>
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, by the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France, and<lb></lb>
Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2629-2">Thomas Phillips</rs>
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one of the Coroners of our said Lord the King for the said County, on View of the Body of <lb></lb>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <lb></lb>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2629-6">John Paulin</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2629-10">William Pettit</rs>
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, Thomas Forge <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2629-11">Walter Twaitt</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2629-12">William Wilkinson</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2629-13">George Penny</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2629-15">Andrew Faulkner</rs>
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good and lawful Men of the said County, duly chosen, and who being then and there duly<lb></lb>
sworn and charged to inquire, for our said Lord the King, when, how, and by what Means, the<lb></lb>
said George Airs came to his<lb></lb>
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said George Airs on the sixth Day of February<lb></lb>
in the Year aforesaid was found drowned and suffocated in The <rs type="placeName" id="LMCOIC65102_geo2731">River Thames</rs>
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near Stone<lb></lb>
Stairs in the Hamlet aforesaid in the Parish and County aforesaid That the said George<lb></lb>
Airs had not any Marks of Violence appearing about him And how or by what Means<lb></lb>
he became drowned and suffocated no Evidence doth appear to the said Jurors<lb></lb>
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<p n="2630"> IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2630-1">Thomas Burkin</rs>
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the Foreman of the said Jurors, on the Behalf of himself and the Rest of his said Fellows, in<lb></lb>
their Presence, have, to this Inquisition, set their Hands and Seals, the Day and Year first<lb></lb>
above written.</p>
<p n="2631"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2631-1">Thos. Phillips</rs>
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Thos Burkin<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Foreman</p>
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