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AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at The Parish
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Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
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William Pomfret
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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 Elizabeth Summerton came to her
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Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Elizabeth Summerton not being of sound
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Mind Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted on the Sixth Day of June
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in the Year aforesaid herself into the
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near The Horse Ferry in the Parish
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and County aforesaid did cast and throw By Means whereof she the said
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was in the Waters of the said River then and there suffocated and drowned of which
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and Suffocation and Drowning she the said Elizabeth Summerton then and there died
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And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said Elizabeth
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Summerton not being of sound Mind, Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and
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distracted in Manner and by the Means aforesaid did kill herself
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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 Inquisiition, set their Hands and Seals, the Day and Year first
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above written.
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Jno. Milnes
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