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And Sold by
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T. JONES,
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Clifford's. inn Gate
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AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our Sovereign LORD the KING, at the House of Mr Holmen
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in the Parish of
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of Great-Britain and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before Edward
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Walter one of the CORONERS of our said LORD the KING for the said County,
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then and there lying dead,
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upon the Oath of the several Persons whose Names are hereunder-written and Seals affixed,
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good and lawful Men of the said County, duly chosen, and who being then and there duly sworn
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Taylor being lunatic and distracted herself did hill in manner any by the Means-
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the Foreman of the said Jurors, and the Rest of his said Fellows, have, to this Inquisition set
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