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who being
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nowhere duly chosen sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord the King when
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on the seventh day of February in the year aforesaid
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situate in the parish and Borough aforesaid and the other end of the said price of Cord unto and
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about his own neck did then and there fix tye and fasten by means whereof he the said
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did then and there hang strangle and suffocate himself of which said hanging
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strangling and suffocation he the said
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did then and there die And so the
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Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said
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not being
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of sound mind memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted did hang and
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kill himself In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Thomas Shott
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the foreman of the Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his fellows in their presence
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have to this Inquisition set their hands and seals the day year and place first above
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Thos. Shott
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