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reduced by the indigation of the David on the seventeenth day of March in the thirty first Year aforesaid with
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force and arms at the Parish and Ward aforesaid in
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aforesaid in and upon the said Martha in
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the Peace of God and our said Lord the King then and there being feloniously wilfully and of his Malice
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afore thought did make an assault and that the said Edward with a certain wooden stock of the value of one
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Penny which he the said Edward in both his hands then and there had and held and with both the hands
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of him the said Edward her the said Martha in and upon the head face back sides fully grain Arms legs
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and thighs of her the said Martha then and there feloniously wilfully and of his Malice afore thought die
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divers time strike and beat giving to her the said Martha then and there by such s
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king and beating of her
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the said Martha with the wooden stick aforesaid and with the hands of him the said Edward One Mortal
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fracture in and upon the back part of the head often the said Martha and one Mortal wound in and upon
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the said back part of the head of her the said Martha of the length of one Inch and the depth of half an Inch
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and also drivers mortal bruises in and upon the back sides belly grain Arms by and thighs of her the
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said Martha of which said mortal fracture wound and bruises she the said Martha from the said
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seventeenth day of March in the year aforesaid until the eighteenth day of the same month of March in the
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same Year at the Parish and Ward aforesaid at
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aforesaid did languish and languishing did live
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On which said eighteenth day of March in the thirty first year aforesaid at the Parish and Ward aforesaid
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in
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aforesaid the said Martha of the said mortal fracture wound and bruises did die And so the Jurors
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aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said Edward her the said Martha in manner and by the
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means aforesaid Feloniously wilfully and of his malice aforethought did kill and Murder against the
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Peace of our said Lord the King his Crown and dignity. And that the said Edward at the time of Committing
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the Felony and Murder aforesaid or at any time since had no Goods or Chattels Lands or tenements within
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the
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or elsewere to the knowledge of the said Jurors In Witness whereof as well the said
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as the said Jurors have to this Inquisition set their hands and seals the day Year and Place
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first above written.
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