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Great-Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before
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then and there lying dead, upon
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Dizney
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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 is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said
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not
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being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding but Lunatick and
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distracted on the fourteenth day of June in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish
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and in the Liberty and County aforesaid, with a certain Razor made of
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Iron and Street which he the said
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then and there had
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and held in his Right Hand, the Throat or Gullet of him the said
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did then and there Strike stat and penetrate
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there by then and there giving unto himself with the Razor aforesaid
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in and upon the Throat or Gullet of him the said
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one mortal Wound of the Length of three Inches, and of the Depth of one
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Inch, of which said Mortal Wound he the said
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from
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the said fourteenth day of June in the Year aforesaid, until the
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seventeenth day of the same Month in the same Year, at the said Parish
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of Saint George Hannover Square within the Liberty and County
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aforesaid, did languish and languishing did live, on which said seventeenth
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day of June in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty and County
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aforesaid, he the said
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of the Mortal Wound aforesaid, did die,
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And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid, do say
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that the said
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Understanding. but lunatick and distracted in Manner and by the
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Means aforesaid,did kill homeself.
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