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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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, the Ninth day of December in the thirty first
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Great-Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before
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, Gentleman, Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on
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View of the Body of
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then and there lying dead, upon
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the Oath of
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John Manson
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Daniel Sutherland
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Thomas Patrick
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George Finch
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Thomas
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Summerfield
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John Adkinson
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John Jones
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Joseph Winter
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, James Reyer,
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James
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Duncan
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Thomas Waddell
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and
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John Rewman
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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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came to
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his Death, do upon their Oath say That on the Eighth day of December in the
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year aforesaid the said
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was found Drowned and suffocated in the
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at
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in the said
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Parish of St. Martin in the Fields
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within the Liberty and County aforesaid, That no marks of Violence appeared on
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the Body but now or by what means the said
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John Sims
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became drowned and
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suffocated no Evidence thereof both appear to the Jurors
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In Witness whereof as well the said
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Coroner as the said
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William Jones
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Foreman of the said Jurors on the
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behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows in their Presence have
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to this Inquisition at their Hands and Seals the Day Year & Place
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abovementioned
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Tho. Prickard
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Foreman
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