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An Inquisition indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King at the Parish
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Eddleston,
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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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came to his Death do upon their Oath say That
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on the Thirty first Day of August in the Year aforesaid being on Board a
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to the said Jurors unknown then lying in the
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