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An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to say at the
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in the thirty fourth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third by the Grace of God of
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Great Britain France and Ireland King defender of the faith and so forth before
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aforesaid who being now here duly chosen sworn and charged
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to inquire for our said Lord the King when how and in what manner the said
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came to his
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death say upon their Oath that the said
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on the twentieth day of January in the year aforesaid
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in the parish and ward aforesaid It so happened that a certain bag of rags then
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and there being in the said Warehouse accidentally casually and by misfortune moved and fell
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from and out of the said Warehouse down and upto and upon the said wharf by means whereof
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did then and there receive one mortal bruised in and upon the back part of
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did then and there instantly die
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and so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said
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in manner
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and by the means aforesaid accidentally casually and by misfortune came to his death and not
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otherwise In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said
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the foreman
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of the said Jurrors on behalf of himself and the rest of his fellows in their presence have to this
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Willm Liddon
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