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In Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
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in the Fourteenth 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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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
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John
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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 Daniel Palmer Stokes came to
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h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Daniel Palmer Stokes on the
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Seventh day of June in the Year aforesaid, into the Serpentine River
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in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County
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aforesaid did go to Bath and Wash himself, And that the said
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Daniel Palmer Stokes Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune
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in the Water of the said River was then and there Suffocated and
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drowned, of which said Suffocation and Drowning he the said
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Daniel Palmer Stokes then and there died. And so the Jurors
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aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, That the said Daniel
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Palmer Stokes, in Manner and by the Means aforesaid
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Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune came to his death,
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and not otherwise. In Witness whereof as well the said
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Coroner, as the said
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on the behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows, in their presence,
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have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day Year and
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Place first above written
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