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the Faith, Etc. before
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one of the Coroners of our said Lord
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the KING, for the said County, on veiw of the body
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Lyons,
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Edmund James
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John Field
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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 is Death, Do upon their Oath say, That the said
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of sound mind Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and Distracted on the Twentieth day of May in the Year aforesaid
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at the Parish and in the County aforesaid in his Dwelling House there Situate with a Certain Razor made of Iron and Steel
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of the Value of Two pence which he the said
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then and there had and held in his right hand the Throat of him
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one Mortal Wound of the length of three Inches and of the Depth of one Inch of which said Mortal Wound he the said
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then and there Instantly died and the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said Thomas
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In Witness whereof as well 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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E. Umfreville
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James Birrell
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