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An Inquisitions Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that
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is to say at the parish of Saint Faith under Saint Paul in the
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year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord
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George the third by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King defender of the faith
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Joseph Twigg,
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aforesaid who being now here duly chosen sworn and
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charged to inquire for our Lord the King when how and in what manner the said
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came to his death say upon their Oath that the said
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not being of sound
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mind mind memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted on the nineteenth day of December
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in the year aforesaid at the parish and ward aforesaid in
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aforesaid one end of a certain piece of
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belonging to the house of the said
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and the other end of the said piece of Cord round and about his own neck did then and there Fix
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tye and fasten by means whereof he the said
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did then and there hang
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strangle and suffocate himself of which said Hanging strangling and suffocation he
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Norris did then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath do say that the said
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that the said
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being aforesaid mind memory and understanding, but
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lunatic and distracted in manner and by the means aforesaid did hang and kill himself In Witness whereof as well the said
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as the said
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the foreman of the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his fellow
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in their presence have to this Inquisition set their hands and seals the day year and place first above
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Foreman
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