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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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his Death, do upon their Oath say , That the said
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Edmund Padbury
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not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding
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but lunatick and distracted on the Twenty first day of
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May in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the
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Liberty and County aforesaid, into the Bason in
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there did cast and throw himself, by Means of which said
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Oath aforesaid do say that the said
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sound Mind Memory and Understanding but
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the said
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in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their
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