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An Inquisition Indented taken for Our Sovereign Lord
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second day of September in the Sixth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the
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Third by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so forth
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Liberty, on View of the Body of
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Samuel Steward
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Richard Cripps
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Joseph Poynton
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James
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Duke
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, good and lawfull Men of the said Liberty duly
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chosen who being then and there duly Sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord the King, when
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how, and by what Means the said
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William Betts
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came to his Death, do upon their Oath
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say, That the said
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William Betts
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William Betts
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, not being of sound Mind, Memory and Understanding, but
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lunatick and distracted, on the Twentieth day of September in the Year aforesaid, into the
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Serpentine River in
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, in the Parish of St. Margaret, within the Liberty and
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County aforesaid did cast and throw himself by Means of which said Casting and
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Throwing he the said
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William Betts
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in the Waters of the said River was then and there
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Suffocated and Drowned, of which said Suffocation and Drowning he the said
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William
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then and there instantly died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid
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do say, that the said
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William Betts
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, in Manner and by the Means aforesaid, not being
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of sound Mind memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted, did drown and
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kill himself. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said
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Christopher
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Foreman of the said Jurors, on behalf of himself, and the rest of his said Fellows,
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in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals, the Day Year and
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Place first above written
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Tho. Prickard
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Coroner
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Christ Sadler Foreman
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