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Charles Burnett
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good and lawful men of the
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chosen sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord the King when how and in
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lunatic and distracted on the eleventh day of April in the year aforesaid at the
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of no value unto and about a certain hook fixed in a beam in the Cellar of the dwelling
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round and about his own neck did then and there fix tye and fasten by means whereof the
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did then and thew die. And so the Jurors
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mind memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted did hang and Kill himself
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the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his fellows in their presence have
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to this Inquisition set their hands and seals the day year and place first abovewritten.
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