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now here duly chosen sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord the King when
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on the thirty first day of January
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situate and being then and there sick and diseased in his body It so happened that
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within the said prison of the said sickness and disease did die and so the Jurors
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aforesaid by the visitation of God died a natural death and by no violent
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