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City and Liberty
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of
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to wit.
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An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
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King, at the Parish of
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Saint John the Evangelist
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within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter,
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Westminster
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in the
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Seventh day of October
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in the Thirteenth Year
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of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great-Britain,
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France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before
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Thomas Prickard
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, Gentleman,
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Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of
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Thomas Gray
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a Labourer then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
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William
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Stratford
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John Mitchell
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William Oare
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Alexander Lane
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Edward Wiggins
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George Mills
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Paul Wilson
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Richard Bunney
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Benjamin Roads
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Charles Kither
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John
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Ansell
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and
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Robert Watson
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good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
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chosen, who being then and there duly sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the
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King, when, how, and by what Means the said
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Thomas Gray
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came to
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h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said
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Thomas Gray
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a Laborer on the
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said Seventh day of October in the Year aforesaid being in a certain Barge
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leaden with Cork, upon the River Thomas at Fletcher's Wharf in the Parish
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aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, and then and there
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employed with other Men to unload the said Barge It so happened that the said
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Thomas
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Gray
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Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune fell out of and from the
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said Barge into the
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River Thames
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, and in the Water and Mud, was then
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and there Suffocated and Drowned, of which said Suffocation and Drowning
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he the said
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Thomas Gray
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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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Thomas
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in Manner and by the Means aforesaid, Accidentally Casually
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and by Misfortune came to his Death, and not otherwise
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In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said
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William
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Stratford
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Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the
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rest of his Fellows, in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their
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Hands and Seals, the Day Year and Place first above written
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Tho. Prickard
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Coroner
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Wm. Stratford
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interp
inst
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type
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"gender"
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>
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rend
=
"mark"
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figure
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Foreman
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