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An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King
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in the thirty second year of the Reign of our
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Sovereign Lord George the third by the Grace God of Great Britain France and Ireland King
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defender of the faith and so forth before
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Edward Morliss, Joseph
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and charged to enquire for our Lord the King when how and in what manner the said
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on the twenty second day of August in the year aforesaid and for some time before had
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the rest of his fellows have in their presence to this Inquisition set their hands and
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seals the day Year and place first abovewritten.
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