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An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
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within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter,
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, the Twenty sixth day of January in the twenty fourth
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Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before
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, Gentleman,
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of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on
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View of the Body of
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then and there lying dead, upon
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the Oath of
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Edward Spice
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James Lloyd
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Andrew
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Steanes
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Thomas Audus
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Charles Inderwick
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Thomas Eyre
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James Vaughan
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Joseph Howell
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William Peever
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John White
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John Burn
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John Baker
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John Gwynn
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John Green
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Anthony Knowles
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and
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Alexander Appleton
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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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Constance Frost
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come to
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her Death, do upon their Oath say , That
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William Wade
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late of the said Parish
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of
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Saint John the Evangelist
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within the Liberty and County aforesaid
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Baker
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not having the Fear
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of God before his Eyes but being moved and seduced by the Instigation of the Devil and
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wickedly devising and intending Constance Frost his Apprentice to kill and Murder,
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on the Fifteenth day of January in the Year aforesaid with Force and Arms at the Parish
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aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid in and upon the said Constance Frost then
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being his Apprentice and in the Peace of God and our said Lord the King then and there being
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feloniously wilfully and of his Malice afore thought did make an Assault And tha the said
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William
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Wade
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on the said Fifteenth day of January in the Year aforesaid and on divers other days between
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that day and the Twenty fourth day of the same Month in the same Year at the Parish and in the
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Liberty and County aforesaid to give and Administer to the said Constance Frost his said Apprentice
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sufficient and necessary Sustenance and Food for the Preservation and support of her Body.
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feloniously wilfully and of his Malice afore thought did neglect and refuse And that the said
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William Wade
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during some Nights between the Twentieth day of January and the twenty fourth
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day of the same Month at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid her
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the said Constance Frost in Severe frosty Weather to lay in a Wet an Damp Cellar without proper and necessary
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Bed and Bedding for the Defence of the said Constance Frost from the Inclemency of the Weather feloniously
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wilfully and of his Malice afore thought did oblige and compel, By Reason of which said neglecting
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and refusing to Administer to the said Constance Frost sufficient and necessary sustenance and Food as
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aforesaid And also by reason of which said obliging and compelling the said Constance Frost to lay in the
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Wet and Damp Cellar in manner aforesaid she the said Constance Frost did languish and languishing did live
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until the Twenty fourth day of January in the Year aforesaid, on which said Twenty fourth day of January. She the said
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Constance Frost being refused the Sustenance and Food aforesaid, in the said Wet and Damp Cellar within the Parish Liberty
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and County aforesaid in the Frosty Weather aforesaid did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say
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that by said
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William Wade
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her the said Constance Frost in Manner and by the Means aforesaid feloniously wilfully and of his
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Malice aforethought did, kill and Murder against the Peace of our said Lord the King his Crown and Dignity, And that the said
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William Wade
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at the time of the commtting of the Felony and Murder aforesaid or at any time, Since had no Goods or Chattels Lands or Tenements within the said
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Liberty or elsewhere to the Knowledge of the said Jurors. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said
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Edward Spice
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Foreman
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of the Jurors on the behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows in their presence have to the Inquisition set their Hands and
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Seals the Day Year and Place about written.
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Tho. Prickard
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Edward Spice
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Foreman
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