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the Faith, Etc. before
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then and there lying dead upon the Oath of
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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 Thomas
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Walker not being of sound Mind, Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and
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distracted on the fourth Day of October in the Year aforesaid one End of a small
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Cord to a Wooden Ridge in the necessary House of
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situate in the
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Parish and County aforesaid and the other End thereof about his own Neck did
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fix tye and fasten And therewith did then and there hang, suffocate and
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strangle himself Of which said Hanging, Suffocation and Strangling he the
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then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their
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Oath aforesaid Do say That the said
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not being of sound Mind
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Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted in Manner and by the
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Means aforesaid did kill himself
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Hands and Seals the Day and Year first abovementioned
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