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France and ireland, King Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before
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Thomas
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George
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Jackson
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James Elley
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chosen, who being then and there duly sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the
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King, when, how, and by what Means the said
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came to
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h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That
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Mary Hyndes
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late of the Parish aforesaid,
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not having the Fear of Good before her Eyes, but moved and seduced by the Instigation of
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the Devil, on the Seventeenth day of April in the Year aforesaid, with force and Arms,
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at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, in and upon the said
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the Insant in the Peace of God and of our said Lord the king, then and
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there being, feloniously willfully and of her Malicc forethought did make an Assault,
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And that the said Mary Hyndes him the said
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the Infant did then and
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there take into both her Hands, and him the said
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into the River then
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County aforesaid, then and there feloniously willfully and of her malic forethought
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did violently cast and throw; by Means where of he the said
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Joseph Smith
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in
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the Waters of the said River was then and there suffocated and drowned; of
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which said Suffocation and Drowing he the said
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Joseph Smith
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then and there
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instantly died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say,
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that the said Mary Hyndes him the siad
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Joseph Smith
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the first in Manner
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and by the Means aforesaid feloniously wilfully and of her Malic forethought
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>
did kill and Murder, against the Peace of our said Lord the King, his Crown
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and Dignity. And that the said Mary Hyndes at the time of committing the
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Felony and Murder aforesaid, had no Goods or Chattels Lands or Tenements
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>
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within the said County or elsewhere to the Knowledge or Notice of the
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said Jurors. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said
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Thomas Turner
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foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself
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and the rest of his Fellows, in their presence have to this Inquisition
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set their Hands and Seals, the Day Year and Place first above written
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Tho. Prickard
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Coroner
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Tho: Turner
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Foreman
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