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(To wit)}
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AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Dwelling House of
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known by the
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our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third
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, by the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France, and
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Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before
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one of the Coroners of our said Lord the King for the said County, on View of the Body of
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Pleadwell Cockham then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
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Peaton Dunn
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John Shelton
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Joseph Empsom
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William Stringer
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Hurst,
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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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said Pleadwell Cockham came to his
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Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Pleadwell Cockham not being of Sound Mind Memory and understanding but
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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
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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
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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
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and Drowning he the said
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Pleadwell Cockham
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did then and there Instantly die and so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that
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the said Pleadwell Cockham not being of Sound Mind Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and Distracted in Manner and by the
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Means aforesaid Drown and kill himself
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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
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Year and year first
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above written.
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Thos. Phillips
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Jno Lomax
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