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Richard Dickinson
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John Norfolk
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to inquire for our said Lord the King when how and in what manner the said
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Ann
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not being
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of sound mind memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted on the twenty
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sixth day of October in the year aforesaid one end of a certain piece of Cord of no value
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unto and about a certain iron nail
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in the Wall of a certain room in the
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there situate and the other end of the said piece
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of Cord round and about her own neck did then and there fix tye and fasten by
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means whereof the said
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Ann Rogers
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did then and there hang strangle and suffocate
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herself of which said hanging strangling and suffocation the said
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Ann Rogers
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did
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</
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then and there die-And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that
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the said
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Ann Rogers
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not being of sound mind memory and understanding but lunatic
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and distracted in manner and by the means aforesaid did hang and kill himself
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</
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In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said
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Jeremiah Cater
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the
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foreman
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of
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>
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the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his fellows in their presence
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>
</
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>
have to this Inquisition set their hands and seals the day year and place first
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>
</
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above written
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forman
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