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who being now here duly chosen sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord the King when how and in what manner the said William
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on the eleventh day of February in the year aforesaid accidentally
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did them and there die and so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath
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aforesaid do say that the said
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accidentally casually and by misfortune was suffocated and drowned In Witnesses whereof as
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well the said Coroner as the said Alexander Lyall the foreman of the said Jurors on 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 place first above written.
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