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(To wit)}
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AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the parish
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of Saint Matthew
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our sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third
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, by the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France, and
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Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before
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Ann Pur
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
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the Younger, Richard Rubey Richard Cheeseman Bartholomew Butterworth
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Blessed
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good and lawful Men of the said County, duly chosen, and who being then and there duly
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sworn and charged to inquire, for our said Lord the King, when, how, and by what Means, the
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said Ann Purnem came to her
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Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Ann Purnem not being of sound
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Mind, Memory and understanding but Lunatic and distracted and being confined
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as a Lunatic in the House of James Stretton situate in the Parish and County
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aforesaid One End of a small Cord to a Certain Rod in the Lodging Room or apartment
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of her the said Ann Purnem in the said House and the other End thereof about her
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own Neck Did fix tye and fasten And therewith did then and there have suffocate
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and strangle herself Of which said Hanging Suffocation and Strangling she the said
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then and there diedAnd so the Jurors aforesaid in for their Oath aforesaid
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Do say That the said Ann Purnem not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding
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distracted in Manner and by the
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IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said
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the Foreman of the said Jurors, on the Behalf of himself and the Rest of his said Fellows, in
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their Presence, have, to this Inquisition, set their Hands and Seals, the Day and Year first
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