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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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William Beane
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George Vaughan
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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 Female Child came to
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h er Death, do upon their Oath say , That a certain Woman unknown did lately
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bring Forth the said Female Child alive, and that the said Woman
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unknown or some other Person or Persons to the said Jurors unknown
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on the Sixteenth day of September in the Year aforesaid with Force and Arms
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at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid in and
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upon the said Female Infant Child in the Place of God and our said Lord the King
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then and there being feloniously wilfully and of his her or their Malice
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fore thought did make an Assault, And that the said Person or Persons to the
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Jurors aforesaid unknown her the said new born Female Child did then
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and there take into his her or their Hands and her the said Female Child
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a certain Privy or
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House situate in
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Parish Liberty and County aforesaid feloniously wilfully
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of his her or
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their Malice fore thought did violently cast and throw down;
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Means
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whereof she the said Female Infant Child in the Soil or Fi
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then and
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there contained in the said Privy or Necessary House was then and there
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Suffocated and Smothered, of which the said Suffocation and Smothering she the
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said Female Infant Child then and there instantly died. And so the Jurors
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aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Person or Persons
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unknown her the said Female Infant Child in Manner and by the Means aforesaid
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feloniously wilfully and of his her or their Malice for thought did kill and murder
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against the Peace of our said Lord the King his Brown and Dignity In Witness
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whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said
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William Seager
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Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows, in their presence,
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have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals, the Day Year and Place
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first above written
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Wm. Seager
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