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An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
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, the Seventh day of April in the Eighteenth 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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Thomas Sherborn
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William Howlitt
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John Street
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John Barber
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William Dodd
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Geo: Donaldson
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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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Sarah Wall
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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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Sarah Wall
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not being of
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sound Mind Memory and Understanding but lunatick and
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distracted, on the Sixth day of April in the Year aforesaid at the
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Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid,
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one End of a certain Silk Handkerchief unto an Iron Rod by the
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Bedside in the Apartment of the said
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Sarah Wall
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in the dwelling-
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House of
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Francis Barron
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situate and being in the said Parish
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Liberty and County, and the other End thereof about her own
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Neck did fix tye and fasten, and therewith did then and there
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hang suffocate and strangle herself, of which said Hanging
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Suffocation and Strangling she the said
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then and
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there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath
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aforesaid dosay, that the said
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Memory and Understanding but lunatick and distracted,
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in manner and by the Means aforesaid, did kill herself
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In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the
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said
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Andrew Hogg
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Foreman of the said Jurors, on the
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behalf of himself and the rest of his said Fellows, in their
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presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and
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Seals the Day Year and Place first above written
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Tho Prickard
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Coroner
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Andw: HoggForeman
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