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To Wit.
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An Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at The Parish of
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Twenty fifth Day of June in the 22d Year of the
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the Faith, Etc. before
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one of the Coroners of Our said Lord
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the KING, for the said County, on view of the body of a New born Male Child
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then and there lying dead, upon the oath of
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John Russell
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Thomas Denby
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Chester,
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James Layndes
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John Smith
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Joseph Somerfield
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Edward Davis
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and William
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Collins
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good and lawful Men of the said County duly chosen as by Law required, and who being then and there duly sworn
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and charged to enquire for our Lord the KING, when, how, and by what means the said New born Male
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Child came to h is Death, Do upon their Oath say, That some Person or Parsons
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to the Jurors aforesaid as yet unknown Not having the Fear of God before his, her
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or their Eyes but being moved and seduced by the Instigation of the Devil on
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the Twenty first Day of June in the Year aforesaid with Force and Grins at the parish aforesaid in the County by aforesaid in and upon the said
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New born Male Child in the Peace of God and of our said Lord the King then
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and there being feloniously wilfully and of his, her or their Malice aforethought
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Did Make an Assault and That the said Person or Persons so as aforesaid unknown
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the said New born Male Child in a certain Linnen Cloth of No Value did then and there feloniously
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Wilfully and of his, her or their Malice aforethought Wrap up and fold By Means whereof the said,
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New born Male Child was then and there suffocated and Smothered of which said suffocation
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and Smothering the said New born Male Child then and there died
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And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said Person or Person so
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as aforesaid as yet the said New born Male Child in Manner and by the Means aforesaid feloniously Wilfully and of his
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her or their Malice aforethought did kill and Murder against the Peace of our said Lord the King his Crown and Dignity
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In Witness whereof, as well as the said Coroner, as the said
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Archibald Gray
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the Foreman of
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the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows, in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their
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Hands and Seals the Day and Year first abovementioned
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E. Umfreville
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Coronr.
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A Gray
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