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An Inquisition Indented taken for Our Sovereign Lord the King
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our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of
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then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of
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Joseph Stevenson
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Terence Burne
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Peter Damot
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Anthony
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Hall
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Richard Price
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William Jacklin
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Joseph Moggs
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Thomas Walton
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William Ingman
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good and lawful Men of the said Liberty duly chosen, who being then and there duly sworn and charged
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to inquire for Our said Lord the King, when, how, and by what Means the said
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Joseph Parsons
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came to his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said
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Joseph Parsons
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not being of sound Mind Memory and
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Understanding, but lunatic and distracted, on the fourteenth day of June in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish aforesaid in the
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Liberty and County aforesaid, one End of a certain piece of small Cord fastened over the Door in the Lodging Room or Apartment of him
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the said
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Joseph Parsons
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in the dwelling House of Mr. Aston situate in the said Parish Liberty and County, and the other End
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thereof about his own Neck, did fix tye and fasten, and therewith did then and there hang suffocate and strangle himself
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of which said Hanging, Suffocation and Strangling, he the said
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Joseph Parsons
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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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Joseph Parsons
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not being of sound mind memory and understanding, but lunatic
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and distracted, in manner and by the means aforesaid, did kill himself In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the
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said
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Thomas Downes
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Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows, in their presence, have
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to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals, the Day Year and Place first abovementioned.
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