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An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
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Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before
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Thomas Pearce
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George Byfield
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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 er Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said
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Mary Clarke
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not being
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of sound Mind Memory and Understanding but lunatick and
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distracted on the said Twenty seventh day of December in the
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Year aforesaid into a certain Cistern within the Dwelling-
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House of the said
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in the Parish aforesaid
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within the Liberty and County aforesaid, there did cast
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and throw herself, by Means of which said Casting and
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Throwing she the said
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in the Water in the
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said Cistern was then and there Suffocated and drowned,
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of which said Suffocation and Drowning she the said
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then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid
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upon their Oath aforesaid do say, That the said
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in Manner and by the Means aforesaid, not being of sound Mind
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Memory and Understanding but lunatick and distracted, did
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drown and kill herself. In Witness whereof as
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well the said Coroner as, the said
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of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the
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rest of his Fellows, in their presence have to this
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Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day Year
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