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An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
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in the Twelfth 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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Elizabeth Hughes
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
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James
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James Gilron
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Richard Taylor
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Mark
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Thomas Mason
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William Hawkins
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Richard Peachey
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Richard
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Jacobs
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Thomas Booker
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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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came to
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h er Death, do upon their Oath say , That the said
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, not being of sound
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Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted, on the Twenty seventh
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day of April in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty
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and County aforesaid, one End of a certain piece of small Cord unto one of the
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Banisters of the Kitchen Stairs in the dwelling House of Lady
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Ann Cecil
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and 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 there with did then and there
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hang suffocate and Strangle herself, of which said Hanging, Suffocation and
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Strangling she the said
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Elizabeth Hughes
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then and there died. And so the Jurors
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aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said
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, not
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being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted,
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in Manner and by the Means aforesaid, did kill herself. In Witness
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whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said James
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of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself, and the rest of the Fellows, in
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their 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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James Stephens
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