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here duly chosen Sworn and Charged to inquire for our said Lord the King when how and in
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of may in the year aforesaid a certain person unknown being gently driving a certain Mail Coach
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and other parts of his Body of which said mortal Bruises the said
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from the said first day of
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of the said Moral Bruises did die
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And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said
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in manner and by
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the means aforesaid Casually and by misfortune was accidentally killed and that the near kind
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and is of the value of
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five Shillings and the Property and in the Possession of a certain person or persons unknown In Witness
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whereof as well the said Coroner as the said
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the Foreman of the said Jurors on
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behalf of himself and the rest of his fellows in their presence have to this Inquisition set their hands
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and Seals the day Year and place first above Written
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