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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 death say upon their oath that the said
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on
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the twenty seventh day of July in the year aforesaid being in and on board of
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there situate It so happened
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that the said John Bissett accidentally casually and by misfortune fell from and
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out of the said vessel into the said River and in and with the waters of the
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did then and there die And so the Jurors
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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
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to his death and not otherwise In Witness whereof as well the said
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