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An Inquisition Intended taken for Our Sovereign Lord the King
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good and lawful Men of of the said Liberty duly chosen, who being then and there duly Sworn and
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charged to inquire for Our said Lord the King, when, how, and by what Means the said John
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Louchcame to his Death, do upon their Oath say, That on the Twenty second day of April in the
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Year aforesaid the said John Louch being a Coachman and carefully driving a Chariot drawn by a pair of
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within the Liberty and County aforesaid; And it being
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near twelve of the Clock at Night of the said Twenty second day of April, and very dark, It so happened
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that a Person unknown was then and there driving a Coach drawn by a pair of Horses in the said
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Road towards Ranllagh aforesaid, and running against the said Chariot being very Dark as aforesaid,
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whereby the said John Louch Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune fell from the Box of the said Chariot
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unto the Ground, and then and thereby the fall aforesaid did receive a Mortal Fracture in his right Leg,
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of which said Mortal Fracture he the said John Louch from the said Twenty second day of April in the Year
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aforesaid, until the Sixteenth day of May in the same Year, at the
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within the City Liberty and County aforesaid did languish and languishing did live, on which said sixteenth
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day of May in the Year aforesaid, in the Hospital aforesaid, he the said John Louch of the Mortal Fracture aforesaid did Dye; And so
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the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said John Louch in manner and by the means aforesaid Accidentally casually
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and by misfortune came to his Death, and not otherwise. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Henry Slawson
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Foreman, on the behalf of himself and the rest of the Jurors, in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the
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Day Year and Place first above written
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