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Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so forth, before
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Hainslow
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Robert Shallard
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George Nelson
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Robert Minnett
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John Joison
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William
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Mumford Dowle
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Charles Perkins
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Thomas Sanderson
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, good and lawfull Men of the said
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Liberty duly chosen, and who being then and there duly Sworn and charged to inquire for our
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said lord the King, when, how, and by what means the said Male Childcame to his
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Death, do upon their Oath say, That on the Eighteenth day of December in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish
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aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, a certain Woman to the Jurors aforesaid unknown did bear and bring
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forth the said Male Child alive, And that the said Woman unknown not having the Fear of God before her Eyes, but being
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moved and seduced by the Instigation of the Devil, and wickedly intending and devising to Kill and Murder the said Male
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Child, on the Day and in the Year aforesaid with Force and Arms at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty aforesaid in
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the County aforesaid, in and upon the said Male Child then and there being alive and in the Peace of God and our said Lord
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the King then and there being feloniously
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and of her Malice forethought did make an Assault And that
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the said Woman unknown then and there feloniously wilfully and of her Malice fore brought, (with Intent and Design that
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the said Male Child might bleed to Death) did refuse neglect and omit to tye and cause to be tyed the Navel String of
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the said Male Child, By means whereof the said Male Child did then and there violently bleed through the said Navel
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String of the said Male Child, and the said Male Child of the great Effusion and Loss of Blood through his said Navel
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String did then and there languish and languishing did live, On which same Day and Year last mentioned the
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said Male Child at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty aforesaid in the County aforesaid, by reason of the great
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Effusion and Loss of Blood aforesaid did Dye. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that
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the said Woman unknown him the said Male Child in Manner and form aforesaid feloniously wilfully
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and of her Malice fore thought did Kill and Murder against the Peace of our said Lord the King his
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Crown and Dignity. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said
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Daniel Hancock
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Foreman of the said Jurors, on the Behalf of himself and the rest of his said Fellows, in their
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presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals, the Day Year and Place first
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above mentioned.
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