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Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the faith and so forth before
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and charged to inquire for our said Lord the King when how and in what manner the said Charles
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Danks came to his death say upon their oath that the said Charles Danks an infant (about the age of
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nineteen months) on the third day of July in the year aforesaid being in a certain one pair of Stairs
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there situate and being near to the window of the said Room
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It so happened that the said Charles Danks accidentally casually and by misfortune fell from and
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out of the window of the said Room into the yard of and belonging to the said dwelling house
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and to upon and against the Stone pavement there by means whereof he the said
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did then and there receive one mortal wound and contusion in and upon the back part of the
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head of him the said Charles Danks of which said mortal wound and contusion he the said Charles
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Danks from the said third day of July in the year aforesaid until the faith day of the said mouth in the same
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year at the parish and Ward aforesaid in
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aforesaid did languish and languishing did live on which said
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fourth day of July in the year aforesaid at the parish and Ward aforesaid in
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of the said mortal bruise and contusion did die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath
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aforesaid do say that the said Charles Danks in manner and by the means aforesaid casually and by
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misfortune came to his death and not otherwise In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as
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