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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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her Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said
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, Not being
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of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick
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and distracted, on the fourteenth day of March in the year
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aforesaid into a certain Baron in
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aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, there did
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cast and throw herself, by means of which said Casting and
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Throwing she the said
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in the Water in the said
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Bason was then and there suffocated and Drowned, of which
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said Suffocation and Downing she the said
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then and there instantly died. And so the Jurors aforesaid
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upon their Oath aforesaid dy say that the said
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lunatick and distracted, in Manner and by the Means
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aforesaid did kill and drown herself. In Witness whereof
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as well the said Coroner, as the said
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of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his said
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fellows, in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their
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Hands and Seals the Day Year and Place abovementioned.
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Wm. Townsend Foreman
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