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AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at The Parish
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ey,
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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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came to his
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Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That the said
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of April in the Year aforesaid being an Infant of the Age of Thirteen Months or
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thereabouts And being laid to Sleep on a Bed in a certain Burcan Bedstead then and there being
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in a Room called the club Room in the Dwelling House of his Father James Foot situate in the Parish
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and County aforesaid And
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the
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of the said James Foot
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(alhough she
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had Put the said
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John Foot
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into the said Bedstead) not Recollecting that the said
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the Infant was then
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>
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and there a sleep or lying in the said Bedstead It so happened That the said Agna
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Scott accidentally, casually and by Misfortune then and there innocently turned
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up the said
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Bedstead By Means whereof he the said
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John Foot
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the Infant in the
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lb
>
</
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>
Cloaths of the said Bed was then and there suffocated and smothered of which
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lb
>
</
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>
said Suffocation and Smothering he the said
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John Foot
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then and there died And
<
lb
>
</
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>
so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said John
<
lb
>
</
lb
>
Foot in Manner and by the Means aforesaid accidentally, casually and by
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lb
>
</
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>
Misfortune Came to his Death
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IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said
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William Hunter
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>
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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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lb
>
</
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>
their Presence, have, to this Inquisition, set their Hands and Seals, the Day and Year first
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>
</
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>
above written.
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Thos. Phillips
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>
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Coroner
</
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>
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Willm HunterForeman
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>
</
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>
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