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in the Fourteenth Year
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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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George Ballat
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Joseph Lovett
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John Ellel
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Edward Collins
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John Wallis
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Simon
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Henckin
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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 is Death, do upon their Oath say , That the said
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Thomas Webb
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, not being of
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sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted,
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on the Seventeenth day of December in the Year aforesaid, at the
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Parish and in the LIberty and County aforesaid, one End of a certain
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piece of small Cord, unto a Scaffold Pole in the Yard adjoining to the
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dwelling House of him the said
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Thomas Webb
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, situate and being in the
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said Parish LIberty and County, and the other End thereof about
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his own Neck did fix tye and fasten, and therewith did then and
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there hang suffocate and strangle himself, of which said Hanging
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Suffocation and Strangling he the said
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Thomas Webb
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then and there
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died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say,
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that the said
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Thomas Webb
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, not being of sound Mind Memory and
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Understanding, but lunatic and distracted in Manner and by
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the Means aforesaid did kill himself. In Witness whereof
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as well the said Coroner, as the said
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David Neilson
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Foreman of
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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
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Seals, the Day Year and Place first abovewritten
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