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not being of sound mind memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted on the fourteenth day of November in the twenty ninth year
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aforesaid at the Parish and Ward aforesaid in
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certain Iron Staple then and there fixed in the Wall of a certain Bed Chamber in the Dwelling house of one
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Cook did then and there hang strangle and suffocate himself Of which said hanging strangling and suffocation he the said
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and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said
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the said Coroner as the said Bilton Metcalf the Foreman of the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows in their presence have
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to this Inquisition set their hands and seals the day year and place first above written
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