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An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
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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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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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in the Twenty seventh
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day of July in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid to
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wit at a certain Place called the King's Private Road leading poor
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in the said Parish Liberty and County being in a very weak, emaciated and Diseased
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State of Body occasioned by a irregular course of Life, by the Visitation of God
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did then and there Dye a Natural Death, and not by any Violent Means. In Witness
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whereof as well the said Coroner as the Foreman of the Jurors aforesaid on behalf of
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himself and the rest of the said Jurors have to this Inquisition set their Hands and
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Seals the Day Year and at the Place abovementioned.
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