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AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at The Parish
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fost
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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 on the Eighth day of February in the year
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aforesaid the said
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Understanding but Lunatic and Distracted herself into a certain Pond of
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Water Situate in a Field called Potters Field in the Parish and County
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aforesaid did last and Throne and was in the Waters thereof then and there Suffocated
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then and there Died and so the Jurors aforesaid
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upon their Oath aforesaid Do say that the said
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in
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manner and by the means aforesaid Accidentally casually and
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by Misfortune came to her Death
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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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