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AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Hamlet
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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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Frances Greenwood on the Twenty
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third Day of March in the year aforesaid being on Board a Ship called The Chapman then
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lying in The
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and County aforesaid It so happened That he the said
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accidentally casually and by misfortune fell from one of the Ports of the said Ship into the River
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aforesaid And was in the Waters thereof then and there suffocated and drowned Of which said
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Suffocation and Drowning he the said
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then and there died And so the Jurors
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aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say That the said
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the means 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 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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