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An Inquisition Indented taken for our sovereign Lord the King at London that is to say at the
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in the thirty third year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third by the grace of God of Great Britain
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France and Ireland King defender of the faith and so forth before
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who being now have duly chosen sworn and charged to
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inquire for our sd Lord the King when how and in what manner the said
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on the fourteenth day of July in the year aforesaid being
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William Ralfe situate and being in
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but lunatic and distracted violently did throw and cast himself from and out of the said Window of the said Chamber
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mortal wound and bruises he the said
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of the said mortal wound, and
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bruises did die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said William
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Crooker not being of sound mind memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted
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in manner and by the means afsd did kill himself - In Witness whereof as well the
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said Coroner as the said
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the foreman of the said Jurors on behalf of himself
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and the rest of his fellows in their presence have to this Inquon set their hands and seals the day
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year and place first above written.
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Thos. Benson
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