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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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and distracted on the Eleventh Day of December in the Year aforesaid
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himself into a Pond of Water in the Parish and County aforesaid did Cast
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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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Hands and Seals the Day and Year first abovementioned
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