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Crompton Joseph Moulden James Pa
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ker Lawrence Kane Robert
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Donald and Daniel Norfolk
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and charged to enquire for Our said Lord the KING, when, how, and by what means the said
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on the First Day of
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November in the year aforesaid being
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Infant of tender Years and being Left by her another in a Room
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or Apartment in the Parish and County aforesaid In which a Fire was then
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and there burning It so happened That the Cloaths which she the said Jane
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Bemish then and there had on and were accidentally casually and by Misfortune
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there Mortally scorch'd and burnt Of which said Mortal Scorching and
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in the Year aforesaid she the said
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in Manner and by the Means aforesaid
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accidentally casually and by Misfortune Came to her Death
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In Witness whereof, as well the said Coroner, as the said
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the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows, in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their
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