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William Holway
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William Broughton
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John Bennett
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Benjamin
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Cornish
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William Gyblett
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Henry Bennett
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Thomas Monkhouse
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William Betney
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John Greenwood
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good and lawfull Men of the said Liberty, duly chosen who being then and there duly
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Sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord the King, how and by what means
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the said Margaret Burgiscame to her Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said
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Margaret Burgis on the Seventeenth day of October in the Year aforesaid, and for a
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long time before, at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid
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did labour and languish under a grievous disease of Body, to Wit, a Fever; And that
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on the said Seventeenth day of October in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish
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aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, She the said Margaret
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Burgis departed this Life, by the Visitation of God, in a natural Way, to wit, of the
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Disease and Distemper aforesaid, and not by any hurt or injury received from
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any Person or Persons whatsoever, to the Knowledge of the said Jurors
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In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said
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Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his said Fellows
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in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals, the Day
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Year and Place first above written
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