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AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the parish
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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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Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said
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Memory and Understanding but lunatic and distracted on the Nineteenth day
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of January in the Year aforesaid One End of a small Cord to a wooden Rafton in
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a Necessary situate in
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and the other End about his own Neck did fix tie and fasten and therewith
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did then and there hang suffocate and strangle himself of which said
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there died and so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid Do
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but lunatic and distracted
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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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