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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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Charles Warpall
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Thomas Stevens
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stephen Preston
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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 is Death, do upon their Oath say , That the said
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not being
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of sond mind memory and Understanding but
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and
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distracted on the First day of June in the Year aforesaid into a certain
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Pond situate in the
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in the
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Fields
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within the Liberty
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County aforesaid did cast and throw himself
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in the
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Water in the said Pond was then and there suffocated and drowned
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of which said Suffocation and drowning he the said
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then and
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there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do
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say that the said
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not being of sound mind memory and
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understanding but Lunatic and distracted in manner and by the means
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aforesaid did hill himself,
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In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner
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as the said
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Foreman of the said Jurors on the behalf
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of himself and the rest of his Fellows in their presence have to this
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Inquisition at their Hands and Seals the Day Year and Place
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abovementioned
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Tho. Prickard
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rend
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>
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Coroner
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n
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>
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>
Rich'd Tomkin
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Foreman
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