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Great-Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before
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of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on
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lying dead
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James Newton
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James Taylor
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William George
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Matthew Musgrave
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Francis Daniel
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Edward Akeman
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James Sherley
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Henry List
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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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James Cheetham
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came to
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h is Death, do upon their Oath say That the said
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James Cheetham
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not
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being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but
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Lunatick
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and
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distracted on the twenty sixth day of March in the Year aforesaid at the said
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within the Liberty and County aforesaid,
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(to wit) into the
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there did cast and throw
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himself by means of which said Casting and throwing he the said
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James
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in the Water of the said River was then and there suffocated
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and drowned, of which said Suffocation and Drowning he the said
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James
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then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their
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Oath aforesaid do say that the said
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James Cheetham
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