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An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to say<lb></lb>
at the precinct of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo48">Bridewell hospital</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo49">Ward of Farringdon</rs>
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without in <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo50">London</rs>
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aforesaid on<lb></lb>
the <rs type="date" id="LMCLIC65007_date19">fifteenth day of January</rs>
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in the thirty fourth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the<lb></lb>
third by the grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King defender of the faith and<lb></lb>
so forth before <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n66-3">Thomas Shelton</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65007_occ23">Coroner</rs>
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of our said Lord the King for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo51">City of London</rs>
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and Borough of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo52">Southwark</rs>
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on view of the Body of a man unknown now here lying dead<lb></lb>
by the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n66-4">Roger Owen</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n66-5">Edward Owen</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n66-6">John Harris</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n66-7">Thomas Couling</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n66-8">Thomas Reynolds</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n66-9">Robert Hatton</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n66-10">George Gerrard</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n66-11">Richard Humphreys</rs>
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Robert Jutat <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n66-12">Ralph Young</rs>
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<del>and</del>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n66-13">Thomas Rodbard</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n66-14">Richard Murred</rs>
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good and lawful men of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo53">City of London</rs>
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who<lb></lb>
being now here duly chosen sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord the King when<lb></lb>
how and in what manner the said Man unknown came to his death say upon their<lb></lb>
Oath that the said man unknown<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
on the tenth day of January in the year<lb></lb>
aforesaid being in and on board a certain large on the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo54">river Thames</rs>
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It so happened that the said<lb></lb>
Man unknown accidentally casually and by misfortune fell from and out of the said lighter into<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo55">River Thames</rs>
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and in and with the Waters of the said River was then and there suffocated<lb></lb>
and drowned of which said suffocation and drowning the said man unknown did then and there<lb></lb>
die and so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said man unknown<lb></lb>
in manner and by the means aforesaid accidentally casually and by misfortune was suffocated<lb></lb>
and drowned. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n66-15">Roger Owen</rs>
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the foreman<lb></lb>
of the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his fellows in their presence have to this<lb></lb>
Inquisition set their hands and seals the day year and place first above written.</p>
<p n="67"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n67-1">Roger Owen</rs>
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foreman</p>
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