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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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Thomas George
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Nicholson
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Richard Wetenhall
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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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came to
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h er Death, do upon their Oath say , That the said
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Elizabeth Jennings
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not being of sound
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Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted, on the Seventh day
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of July in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid,
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a great Quantity of Arsenick, being a deadly Poison, into a certain
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Quantity of Water did then and there put and mix, and the said White Arsenick
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so put and mixt as aforesaid, she the said
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Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted as aforesaid,
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did then and there take drink and swallow down; by Means whereof she the
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said
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Elizabeth Jennings
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became then and there Sick and Distempered in her Body,
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and of the Poison aforesaid, and of the Sickness and Distemper thereby occasioned,
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from the said Seventh day of July in the Year aforesaid, until the Eighth day
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of the same Month, in the same Year, at the Parish and in the Liberty and County
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aforesaid, did languish and languishing did live, on which said Eighth day of July
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in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid, she the
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Elizabeth Jennings
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of the Poison aforesaid, and of the Sickness and Distemper
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occasioned thereby, did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid
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do saythat the said
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Elizabeth Jennings
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Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted, in Manner and by the
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Means aforesaid did Poison and kill herself. In Witness whereof as well the
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said Coroner as the said
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James Loton
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Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of
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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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