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by the grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King defender of the faith and so forth
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their Oath that the said
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lunatic and distracted on the first day of July in the year aforesaid one end of
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of the value of one penny round and about a certain Iron
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hook fixed in the Wainscott of a certain room in the dwelling house of him the said
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fix tie and fasten by means whereof he the said
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did then and there
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hang strangle and suffocate himself by means of which said hanging strangling and
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suffocation he the said
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did then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid
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upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said
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not being of sound mind
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memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted did hang and kill himself In
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Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said
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Richard Moss
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the foreman of the said
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Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his fellow in their presence have to this Inquisition
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set their hands and seals the day year and place first above written.
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