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An Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the parish of Saint
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Andrew Holborn
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then and there lying dead, upon the oath of John Pryfield John
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good and lawful Men of the said County duly chosen as by Law required, and who being then and there duly sworn
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and charged to enquire for our said Lord the KING, when, how, and by what means the said
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came to h er Death, Do upon their Oath say, That the said
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not being of sound Mind Memory sand Understanding but Lunatic and distracted
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on the Twenty Eighth Day of May in the year aforesaid at the Parish and
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to the Jurors aforesaid
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Did take and Swallow down By Means where she the said Mary Detross then
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and there became sick and distempered in her Body And of the said Sickness and
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Distemper did Languish for the Space of a about Six Hours and then died
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to wit in the Parish and County aforesaid And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their
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Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted in Manner and by the
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Means aforesaid did kill herself
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In Witness whereof, as well as the said Coroner, as the said
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the Foreman of
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the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows, in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their
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Hands and Seals the Day and Year first abovementioned
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