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An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
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King, at the
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Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before
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good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
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chosen, who being then and there duly sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the
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King, when, how, and by what Means the said John Moorie came to
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h is Death, do upon their Oath say , That the said John Moorie on the
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said seventeenth day of June in the Year aforesaid was found
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drowned and Suffocated in the
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but how or by what Means he became drowned and Suffocated
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no Evidence thereof doth appear to the Jurors
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In Witness whereof as well the said
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Coroner as the said
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of the said
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Jurors on the behalf of himself and the Rest of his Fellows,
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in their Presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands
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and Seals the Day Year and Place abovementioned
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