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AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish
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good and lawful Men of the said County, duly chosen, and who being then and there duly
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sworn and charged to inquire, for our said Lord the King, when, how, and by what Means, the
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Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said
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Mind Memory and understanding but Lunatic and distracted on the Twenty third
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Day of September in the Year aforesaid himself out of a Two Pair of Stairs Window
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and upon the Ground did last and throw By means whereof he the said
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so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do Say That the said
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their Presence, have, to this Inquisition, set their Hands and Seals, the Day and Year first
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