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and George the third by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King defender
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Morss Good and lawful Men of the
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aforesaid who
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lying now here Daily
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sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord the King
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Oath that the said
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not being of sound mind memory and understanding
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but lunatic and distracted on the third day of April in the year aforesaid with a certain
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or value two pence which he in one of his hands then and then held and had thereupon
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and throat of sum the said
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himself then and there with the
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aforesaid one mental Wound in and upon his said
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Throat of which said Mortal Wounds he the said
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from the said from the said third day
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April in the year aforesaid until the fifth day of the same month of
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April
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of April in the year aforesaid at the parish and Ward aforesaid in London aforesaid
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the said
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of the said mortal Wound did die And so the Jurors aforesaid
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upon their Oath aforesaid do say taht the said
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not being of sound mind
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Memory and understanding but lunalis and distrasted in manner and by the
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Means aforesaid did kell himself In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as
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the said
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the Foreman of the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the
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rest of his fellows have
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in their presence to this Inquisition set their
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