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AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at The Hamlet
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our sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third
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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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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 her
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Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said
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not being of sound mind
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Memory and understanding but Lunatic and distracted on the fourth Day of August
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in the year aforesaid One End of a small Cord to an Iron Bar in a Garrett Window of the
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situate in the Hamlet aforesaid in the Parish and County aforesaid and the
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other End thereof about his own Neck did fix tye and fasten and therewith did then and
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there hang suffocate and strangle house of Of which said Hanging, Suffocation and Strangling
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she the said
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then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath
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aforesaid Do say That the said
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but Lunatic and 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 Inquisition, set their Hands and Seals, the Day and Year first
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