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<p n="1116"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">London</note>
An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo1140">London</rs>
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(that is to say)<lb></lb>
at the parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo1141">Saint Dunstan in the East</rs>
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in the Ward of Fower in London aforesaid on the <rs type="date" id="LMCLIC65012_date88">thirtieth<lb></lb>
day of July</rs>
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in the thirty ninth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third King<lb></lb>
of Great Britain and so forth before <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1116-3">Thomas Shelton</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65012_occ327">Gentleman</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65012_occ328">Coroner</rs>
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of our said Lord<lb></lb>
the King for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo1142">City of London</rs>
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and Borough of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo1143">Southwark</rs>
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on view of the body of John<lb></lb>
Bissett now here lying dead by the oath of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1116-4">William How</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1116-5">John Crane</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1116-6">Joseph Fennell</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1116-7">Samuel Wright</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1116-8">Henry Hadden</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1116-9">Stephen Newman</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1116-10">Joseph Davis</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1116-11">John Williams</rs>
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, John<lb></lb>
Smith, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1116-12">John Beckett</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1116-13">Daniel Jewson</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1116-14">William Harris</rs>
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, good and lawful men of<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo1144">City of London</rs>
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aforesaid who being now here duly chosen sworn and charged<lb></lb>
to inquire for our said Lord the King when how and in what manner the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1116-15">John Bissett</rs>
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came to his death say upon their oath that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1116-16">John Bissett</rs>
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on<lb></lb>
the twenty seventh day of July in the year aforesaid being in and on board of<lb></lb>
a certain vessel lying on the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo1145">River of Thames</rs>
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there situate It so happened<lb></lb>
that the said John Bissett accidentally casually and by misfortune fell from and<lb></lb>
out of the said vessel into the said River and in and with the waters of the<lb></lb>
said River was then and there suffocated and drowned of which said suffocation<lb></lb>
and drowning the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1116-17">John Bissett</rs>
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did then and there die And so the Jurors<lb></lb>
aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1116-18">John Bissett</rs>
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in manner<lb></lb>
and by the means aforesaid accidentally casually and by misfortune came<lb></lb>
to his death and not otherwise In Witness whereof as well the said <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65012_occ329">Coroner</rs>
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as the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1116-19">William How</rs>
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the foreman of the said Jurors on behalf of himself<lb></lb>
and the rest of his fellows in their presence have to this Inquisition set their<lb></lb>
hands and seals the day year and place first above written.</p>
<p n="1117"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1117-1">Willm How</rs>
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