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in the thirty ninth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third,
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by the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith,
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said Lord the King then and there being, feloniously Wilfully and of his Malice forethought did make an aforesaid
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from the said twenty second day of May in the Year aforesaid to the twenty fifth
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day of the same Month in the same year at the Parish of Saint Margaret within the Liberty
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Parish and in the Liberty aforesaid To Wit in the
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the Means aforesaid felonious wilfully and of his Malice forethought did kill and
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murder against the peace of our said Lord the King his Crown and Dignity and that the
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IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coronor as the said Jurors, have to this Inquitition
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set their Hands and Seals the Day, Year, and Place first above Written.
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