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in the Twelfth Year
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France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
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John Cowper
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John Totton
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James Hosier
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Heel Legg
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George Benson
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Joseph Crow
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Thomas Fisher
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George Lawrence
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John Shirley
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William Tomlinson
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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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Ann Nicholson
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came to
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h er Death, do upon their Oath say
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That the said
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Ann Nicholson
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not being of Sound Mind
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Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and Distracted on the Twenty fourth day of July in the Year aforesaid
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at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid one end of a certain piece of Cord unto an Iron Staple
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fastened into the Ceiling of the two pair of Stairs fore Room of the dwelling House of
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James Nicholson
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her Husband situate in
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Piccadilly
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in the said Parish Liberty and County and the other end thereof about her
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own Neck did fix tye and fasten, and therewith did then and there hang Suffocate and strangle herself
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of which said Hanging, Suffocation and Strangling she the said
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Ann Nicholson
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then and there Died.
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And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said
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Ann Nicholson
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not being
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of Sound Mind Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and Distracted in manner and by the means
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aforesaid did Kill herself. In Witness whereof as Well the said Coroner as the Forenoon of the
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Jurors aforesaid on behalf of himself and the rest of the said Jurors have to this Inquisition set their
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Hands and Seals the Day Year and at the Place abovementioned.
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Foorman
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