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ninth Day of February in the Thirty third Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Second by the
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Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so forth and in the Year
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then and
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there Lying Dead by the Oaths of
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Richard Adams
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James Moncur
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Robert Triphock
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William Dorsett
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Peter Peterson
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Joseph Hall
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William Gray
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Philip Andrews
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John Drapen
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Thomas Coles
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Richard Butt
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Richard Bickenton
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Thomas Love
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and
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John Marchaux
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Good and Lawful Men of the said City and Liberty who,
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being Sworn and Charged to Inquire for our Sovereign Lord the King how, when where, and in what
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Manner the said
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Martha Strong
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came to her Death, say upon their Oaths That on Thursday the
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28th
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the said Martha Strong being alone in a back room Two pair of Stairs in the House
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where she Dwell (the Door being locked and the Key in the inside of the said Room) situate in
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Leicester
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in the
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in the Liberty and County aforesaid, and not being of Sound Mind
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Memory and understanding but Lunatick and Distracted a Cord of no Value into her hands did take
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and one part thereof round her Neck did put and place and the other part thereof round the Log of a
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half Teasten Turn'd up Bed in the said Room
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put and Fasten by means of which putting placing
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hanging and strangling she then and there Died. And so the said Jurors upon their Oath find and
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say That the said Martha Strong the said 28th, day of February in the
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in the
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Liberty and County aforesaid in manner and form aforesaid by his Death came and not otherwise
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In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the Foreman of the Jurors aforesaid have to this
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Inquisition put their hands and Seals the Day Year and at the Place aforesaid
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Coroner
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Foreman
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