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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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h er Death, do upon their Oath say, that the said Margaret Darrell not being
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of sound mind Memory and Understanding but lunatick
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and distracted on the Eleventh day of September in the Year
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aforesaid at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County
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aforesaid a Quantity of White Arseme being a deadly Poison into a certain
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quantity of Beer did then and there put and mix, and the said White
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then and there take drink and swallow down, by Means whereof she the
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said Margaret Darrell became then and there sick and distempered
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in her Body, and of the Poison aforesaid and of the sickness and Distemper
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thereby occasioned did then and there die, And so Jurors
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aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said
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Margaret Darrell not being of sound Mind Memory and
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of the said Jurors, on the behalf
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of himself and the rest of his Fellows, in their presence
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have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals
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the Day Year and Place above written
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