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Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so forth before
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good and lawfull Men of the said Liberty duly Chosen, who being then and there
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Sworn and Charged to inquire for our said Lord the King when, how, and by what
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means the said Joseph BurgaineCome to his Death do upon their Oath
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say, That the said Joseph Burgaine, not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding
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but lunatick and distracted, on the Twenty fourth day of June in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish
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aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, one End of a certain Silk Hand kerchief unto the
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back of a Great Chair, in the Lodging Room or Apartment of him the said Joseph Burgaine
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in the Dwelling House of
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, situate and being in the said Parish Liberty and County
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and the other End thereof about his own Neck, did fix tye, and fasten, and therewith did then and
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there hand suffocate, and strange himself, of which said Hanging, Suffocation, and Strangling he
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the said Joseph Burgaine then and there died. And so the Jurors, aforesaid upon their Oath
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aforesaid, do say, that the said Joseph Burgaine, not being of sound Mind Memory and
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Understanding, but lunatick and distracted, in Manner and by the Means aforesaid
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did kill himself. 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, in
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their presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals, the Day Year and
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Place first above written
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