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An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign
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Lord the King at the Parish of Saint George
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, the Eleventh day of March in the SixthYear of the Reign
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of our Sovereign Lord George the Third by the grace of God of Great Britain France and
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Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so forth, before
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William Paylatt
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William
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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 when how, and by what means
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the said Woman Unknown Came to her Death, do upon their Oath say, That
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the said Woman Unknown on the Ninth day of March in the Year aforesaid, was
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found Drowned and Suffocated in the
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in the
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Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, That the said Woman
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Unknown had no Marks of Violence appearing on her Body, but how or by what
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Means she became Drowned and Suffocated, no Evidence thereof doth appear to the
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Jurors. In Witness where of as well the said Coroner, as the said
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William
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Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his
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said 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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Wm. DavisForeman
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