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King, at the
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in the Eleventh Year
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of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great-Britain,
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France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before
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Thomas Prickard
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
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William Jack
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William Tonge
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Jonathan Wools
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Charles Simmons
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William Cook
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William
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Johnson
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Benjamin Griffis
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John Higginbotham
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William Richardson
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William
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Anderson
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Charles Burnet
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Samuel Coldicoates
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, good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
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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 Rachell Richabe came to
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h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Rachell Richabe (suspected to have
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been Murdered) on the said Thirty first day of July in the Year aforesaid, at
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the Bell Inn in
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within the Parish Liberty and County aforesaid,
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where the said Rachell Richabe was a Nightly Lodger, died Luddenly by the
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Visitation of God, in a Natural Way, and not by any Hurt or Injury
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from
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Thomas Smith
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, or any other Person or Persons whatsoever, to the
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Knowledge of the said Jurors. In Witness whereof as well the
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said Coroner as the said
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Joshua Bostock
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Foreman of the said Jurors,
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on the behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellow, of their presence,
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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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