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duly chosen Sworn and Charged to inquire for our said Lord the King when how and in what
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not being of sound mind Memory and understanding but Lunatic and distracted on the Thirteenth
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day of August in the Year aforesaid being in a certain Room in the upper Story of a certain House there
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situate and being near unto the Window there. It so happened that the said a legal Crips accedintally
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And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said
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being of sound mind memory and under standing but Lunatic and Distracted in manner
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and by the means aforesaid casually and by misfortune was accidentally killed In
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Witnesses whereof as well the said Corner as the said
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the Foreman of the
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said Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his fellows in their presence have to this
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Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the day Year and Place First above written
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