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France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
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Mortimer
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Thomas Berry
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John Chapelow
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Richard Thomas
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Robert Greenwood
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James Watson
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good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
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chosen, who being then and there duly sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the
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King, when, how, and by what Means the said
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Hannah Bignell
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came to
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h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said
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not being of sound
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Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatic and distracted, on the Twenty-
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-seventh day of June in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish aforesaid within the
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Liberty and County aforesaid, one End of a certain piece of small Lord over
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the top of the Door of the Necessary House or Privy of
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, situate
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and being in
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in the said Parish Liberty and County, and the other
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End thereof about her own Neck, did Six tie and fasten, and therewith did
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then and there hang suffocate and strangle herself, of which said
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Hanging, Suffocation, and Strangling, she the said
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Hannah Bignell
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then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath
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aforesaid do say, that the said
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not being of sound
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Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted, in
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Manner and by the Means aforesaid, did kill herself. In Witness
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whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said
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Moses Wingrove
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Foreman
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of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows,
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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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Foreman
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