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An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that<lb></lb>
is to say at the Parish of Saint Sepulchre in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65004_geo471">Ward of Farringdon</rs>
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without in London afsd. on the<lb></lb>
<rs type="date" id="LMCLIC65004_date31">twenty first day of March</rs>
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in the thirty first year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third<lb></lb>
by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King defender of the faith and so forth Before<lb></lb>
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of our said Lord the King for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65004_geo472">City of London</rs>
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on view of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65004_n494-4">Martha Pritchard</rs>
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now here lying dead by the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65004_n494-5">William Robert</rs>
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James<lb></lb>
Thompson <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65004_n494-6">William Stephens</rs>
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aforesaid who being now here duly chosen sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord the King when how and in<lb></lb>
what manner the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65004_n494-25">Martha Pritchard</rs>
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same to her death say upon their Oath that<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65004_n494-26">Edward Pritchard</rs>
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late of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65004_geo475">London</rs>
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not having the fear of God before his Eyes but being moved and<lb></lb>
reduced by the indigation of the David on the seventeenth day of March in the thirty first Year aforesaid with<lb></lb>
force and arms at the Parish and Ward aforesaid in <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65004_geo476">London</rs>
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aforesaid in and upon the said Martha in<lb></lb>
the Peace of God and our said Lord the King then and there being feloniously wilfully and of his Malice<lb></lb>
afore thought did make an assault and that the said Edward with a certain wooden stock of the value of one<lb></lb>
Penny which he the said Edward in both his hands then and there had and held and with both the hands<lb></lb>
of him the said Edward her the said Martha in and upon the head face back sides fully grain Arms legs<lb></lb>
and thighs of her the said Martha then and there feloniously wilfully and of his Malice afore thought die<lb></lb>
divers time strike and beat giving to her the said Martha then and there by such s<obscured></obscured>
king and beating of her<lb></lb>
the said Martha with the wooden stick aforesaid and with the hands of him the said Edward One Mortal<lb></lb>
fracture in and upon the back part of the head often the said Martha and one Mortal wound in and upon<lb></lb>
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<lb></lb>
and also drivers mortal bruises in and upon the back sides belly grain Arms by and thighs of her the<lb></lb>
said Martha of which said mortal fracture wound and bruises she the said Martha from the said<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
seventeenth day of March in the year aforesaid until the eighteenth day of the same month of March in the<lb></lb>
same Year at the Parish and Ward aforesaid at <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65004_geo477">London</rs>
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aforesaid did languish and languishing did live<lb></lb>
On which said eighteenth day of March in the thirty first year aforesaid at the Parish and Ward aforesaid<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65004_geo478">London</rs>
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aforesaid the said Martha of the said mortal fracture wound and bruises did die And so the Jurors<lb></lb>
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said Edward her the said Martha in manner and by the<lb></lb>
means aforesaid Feloniously wilfully and of his malice aforethought did kill and Murder against the<lb></lb>
Peace of our said Lord the King his Crown and dignity. And that the said Edward at the time of Committing<lb></lb>
the Felony and Murder aforesaid or at any time since had no Goods or Chattels Lands or tenements within<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65004_geo479">City of London</rs>
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or elsewere to the knowledge of the said Jurors In Witness whereof as well the said<lb></lb>
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as the said Jurors have to this Inquisition set their hands and seals the day Year and Place<lb></lb>
first above written.</p>
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