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France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before
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Joseph Balaam
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William Williams
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Richard Ash
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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
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Margaret Reeves
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came to
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h er Death, do upon their Oath say , That the said
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, not being of
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sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted, on
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the Twenty sixth day of November in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish and
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in the Liberty and County aforesaid, one End of a certain piece of small
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Cord unto an Iron Stable fastened into the Ceiling in a Closet adjoining
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to the Kitchen in the dwelling House of
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Charles Marsh
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situate and
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being in the said Parish Liberty and County, and the other End thereof
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about her own Neck, did fix tye and fasten, and therewith did then
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and there Hang, Suffocate, and Strangle herself, of which said Hanging
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Suffocation and Strangling; she the said
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then and
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there died, And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do
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say, That the said
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, not being of sound Mind Memory
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and Understanding, but lunatic and distracted, in Manner and by
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the Means aforesaid, did Kill herself. In Witness whereof as
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well the said Coroner, as the said James Nicolson Foreman of the said
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Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows, in their
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presence have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals, the Day
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Year and Place first above written.
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