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who being now here duly chosen sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord the King
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lunatic and distracted on the twenty second day of December in the year aforesaid one end of a
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certain silk handkerchief unto and about a certain nail in the Cieling over certain stairs
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in the dwelling house of him the said
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there fix tye and fasten by means whereof the said
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hang strangle and suffocate himself by which said hanging strangling and
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suffocation he the said
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upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said
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memory and undertaking but lunatic and distracted did hang and kill himself
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the foreman
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of the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his fellows in their
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presence have to this Inquisition set their hands and seals the day year and
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place first above written.
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Foreman
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