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France and Ireland King Defender of the faith and so forth and in the Year of our Lord One Thousand
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Good and Lawfull Men
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Sworn and Charged to Esquire for our Sovereign Lord the King how when where and michael manner
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of this Instant July
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of
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happened that the Board or other Wooden Machinery as aforesaid suddenly loosened and gave way whereby
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the said 21st day of July in the Year aforesaid in the Verge
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aforesaid in manner and form aforesaid by his Death came and not otherwise. In Witness whereof
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as well the said Coroner as the Forenoon of the Jurors aforesaid have to this Inquisition put them
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hands and Seals the day Year and at the place abovesaid
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Foreman
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