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An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
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King at the
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of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on
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h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Male Infant
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Child on the seventeenth day of August in the Year
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aforesaid, was found dead in a certain Dust Hole at
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within the Liberty and County aforesaid, That no
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Marks of Violence appeared on the Body, and that the
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said Male Infant Child was still bom
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In Witness whereof. as well
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the said
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of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest
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of his Fellows in their Presence have to this Inquisition
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set their Hands and Seals the Day Year and Place
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above mentioned
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