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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 Frances Life came to
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her Death, do upon their Oath say that the said Frances Life not being of
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sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and
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distracted, on the Twelfth day of February in the Year aforesaid
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at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid, a
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certain Quantity of Mercury did then and there take drink
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and Swallow down, by Means whereof the said Frances Life
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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
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thereby occasioned, from the said Twelfth day of December in
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the Year aforesaid until the Thirteenth day of the same Month
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and Year at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid
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did languish and languishing did live, on which said thirteenth
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day of December in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the
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Liberty and County aforesaid she the said Frances Life of the
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Poison aforesaid and of the Sickness and Distemper thereby
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occasioned did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath
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aforesaid do say, that the said Frances Life, not being of sound
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Mind Memory and Understanding but lunatick and distracted
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in Manner and by the Means aforesaid did Poison and Kill herself
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In Witness where of as well the said Coroner as the said
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and the rest of his said Fellows in their presence have to this
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