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(To wit)}</note>
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AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Dwelling House of<lb></lb>
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known by the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCOIC65102_geo2835">Sign of the Spread Eagle</rs>
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in the Parish of Saint John at Hackney in the County of<lb></lb>
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, the <rs type="date" id="LMCOIC65102_date467">Seventeenth Day of April 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_n2716-3">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>
Pleadwell Cockham then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <lb></lb>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2716-5">Peaton Dunn</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2716-6">John Shelton</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2716-7">Joseph Empsom</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2716-8">William Stringer</rs>
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, Richard Brigg, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2716-9">John Ward</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2716-10">Thomas Dore</rs>
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, William<lb></lb>
Hurst, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2716-11">John Lloyd</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2716-12">Gregory Norton</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2716-13">William Watson</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2716-14">Peter Nowin</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 Pleadwell Cockham came to his<lb></lb>
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Pleadwell Cockham not being of Sound Mind Memory and understanding but<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMCOIC65102_occ665">Lunatic</rs>
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and Distracted on the fourth Day of April in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the County aforesaid into a Certain River there Situate and<lb></lb>
being Called the River Lee did Cast and throw himself by Means of which said Casting and throwing of himself he the said Pleadwell Cockham unto the<lb></lb>
said River as aforesaid he the said Pleadwell Cockham in the Waters of the said River was then and there Suffocated and Drowned of which said Suffocation<lb></lb>
and Drowning he the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2716-15">Pleadwell Cockham</rs>
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did then and there Instantly die and so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that<lb></lb>
the said Pleadwell Cockham not being of Sound Mind Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and Distracted in Manner and by the<lb></lb>
Means aforesaid Drown and kill himself</p>
<p n="2717"> IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2717-1">John Lomax</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<del>and</del>
Year and year first<lb></lb>
above written.</p>
<p n="2718"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2718-1">Thos. Phillips</rs>
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Jno Lomax<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Foreman</p>
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