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An Inquisition Indented taken for Our Sovereign Lord the King
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by the
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Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so forth
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On View of the Body of
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Charles
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Hilliard
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Edward Woodcock
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Thomas Ruthwin
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William Towse
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John Evans
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Edward Jay
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Thomas Compton
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, good and Lawful Men of the said Liberty duly chosen who
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being then and there duly Sworn and charged to inquire for Our said Lord the King when how and by
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what Means the said
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Vincent Cranfield
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came to his Death do upon their Oath say That
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the said
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Vincent Cranfield
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Twenty third day of
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January
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in the Year aforesaid, being on a Scaffold erected upon the dwelling House of
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Peter Sisums
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situate in
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Mount Street
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, at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and
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County aforesaid, It so happened that the said Vincent Cranfield then and there
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Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune fell from the said Scaffold, being three Stories
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high, unto the Ground, by Means whereof he the said
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, by the fall
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aforesaid then and there received a violent Concussion upon the Brain, of which said
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violent Concussion he the said Vincent Cranfield then and there instantly Died.
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And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said Vincent
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Cranfield in Manner and by the Means aforesaid, Accidentally Casually and by
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said Coroner, as the said
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Foreman of the said Jurors on the behalf
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of himself and the rest of his Fellows, in their presence, have to this Inquisition set
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their Hands and Seals the Day Year and Place first above written
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