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(To wit.)}
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AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Hamlet
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Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before
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one of the Coroners of our said Lord the King for the said County, on View of the Body of
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a Boy unknown then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
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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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said Boy unknown came to his
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Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Boy unknown on the second Day of
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January in the year aforesaid was found drowned and suffocated in the
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Stairs in the Hamlet aforesaid in the Parish and County aforesaid. That
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the said Boy unknown had not any Marks of Violence appearing about him And how
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or by what Means he beca
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owned andlocated no Evidence doth appear to th
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Jurors
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IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said
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the Foreman of the said Jurors, on the Behalf of himself and the Rest of his said Fellows, in
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their Presence, have, to this Inquisition, set their Hands and Seals, the Day and Year first
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