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An Inquisition Indented taken for Our Sovereign Lord the
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Lord George the Third
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by the grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender
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of the Faith and so forth, before
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King for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of a Woman Unknown then and
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there lying Dead, upon the Oath of
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good and lawfull Men of the said City and Liberty duly chosen, who being then and there duly Sworn
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and charged to inquire for our said Lord the King, when, how, and by what Means the said
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Woman Unknown came to her Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Woman
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Unknown on the
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in a certain Passage leading from Old
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, near to a
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Place called Cotton Garden, in the Parish aforesaid, within the City Liberty and County
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aforesaid, that the said Woman Unknown had no Marks of Violence appearing on
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her Body, bur died through Want and the Inclemency of the Weather, and by
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no violent Ways or Means whatsoever, to the Knowledge of the said Jurors
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In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said Abraham Terry
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Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his said
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Fellows, in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals
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the Day Year and Place first above written
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Abraham Terry
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