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August in the thirty fourth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the second by the Grace of God of
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Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the faith and so forth and in the Year of our Lord One
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William Smith
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Thierchen
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Good and Lawfull Men of the
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said City and liberty who being Sworn and Charged to Enquire for our Sovereign Lord the King, how when
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where and in what manner the said
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came to her Death say upon their Oaths, That or
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Tuesday the
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the said Sarah Tomes being alone in the Kitchen of the Dwelling
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House of Mr.
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Thomas Compton
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Grocer scituate in South Audley Street in the said
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in the Liberty and County aforesaid, with whom the said Sarah Tomes lived a Servant and not being
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of Lord Mind Memory and Understanding, but Lunatick and Distracted a certain cord of no Value in
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her hands did take and one part thereof round her Neck did put and place and the other part thereof
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round an Iron hook or Nail fastned and fixed in the Wainscot of the said Kitchen did put round tye and
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fasten by means of which putting placing and fastning as aforesaid the said Sarah Tomes herself did
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hang and strangle, by means of which hanging and strangling as aforesaid the said Sarah Tomes then
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and there instantly Died. And so the said Jurors aforesaid upon then Oaths aforesaid do say That the said
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in the Your aforesaid in the Liberty and County aforesaid, in
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manner and form aforesaid by her Death came and not otherwise. In Witness whereof as well the
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said Coroner as the Forenoon of the Jurors aforesaid have to this Inquisition set their hands and Seals
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the day Year, and at the Place abovesaid.
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