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who being now here duly chosen sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord the
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King when how and in what manner the said
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say upon their oath that the said
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and understanding but lunatic and distracted on the twenty Seventh day of July
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in the year aforesaid one end of a certain piece of Cord of no value unto and about a
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certain iron hook fixed in the Wall of a certain room in the dwelling house of
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Bucknell did then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath
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aforesaid do say that the said
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not being of sound mind memory
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In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said
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the
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foreman of the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his fellows in
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their presence have to this Inquisition set their hands and seals the day year
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and place first above written.
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