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in the Eighth Year
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of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great-Britain,
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France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, Before
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Thomas Prickard
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Isabella Bates
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
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John
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Richard Price
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Joseph Baylis
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Sodan
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John Saxey
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James Mason
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John Finlayson
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James Wild
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William Morrison
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Benjamin Virtue
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George Field
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Dan. Rainbow
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Lewis Zubre
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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 Isabella Bates came to
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h er Death, do upon their Oath say , That the said Isabella Bates, not being of sound
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Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted, on the
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Fourth day of July in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish and in the City
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Liberty and County aforesaid, a large Quantity of Laudanum did then and
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there take drink and swallow down, by Means whereof she the said
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Isabella Bates became then and there sick and distempered in her Body,
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and of the Laudanum aforesaid, being a deadly Poison, and of the Sickness
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and Distemper thereby occasioned, from the said Fourth day of July in the
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Year aforesaid, untill the Fifth day of the same Month, in the same Year,
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at the Parish aforesaid within the City Liberty and County aforesaid, did
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languish and languishing did live, on which said said Fifth day of July
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in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish and in the City Liberty and County
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aforesaid, she the said Isabella Bates of the Poison aforesaid, and of the
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Sickness and Distemper occasioned thereby, did die. And so the Jurors
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aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Isabella Bates
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not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding but lunatick
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and distracted, in Manner and by the Means aforesaid, did Poison and
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kill herself. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the
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said
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John Rush
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Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the
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rest of his Fellows, in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their
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Hands and Seals the Day Year and place first above written
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Jno. Rush
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