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by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so
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and Liberty, On View of the Body of
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James Ross
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Jonathan Wagg
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Henry Sudbury
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Joseph Perfet
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Philip Owen
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Andrew
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Edward Haynes
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Edward Green
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, good and lawfull Men of the said Liberty duty chosen
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who being then and there duly Sworn and Charged to inquire for our said Lord the King, when
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how, and by what Means the said
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Peter Simpson
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came to his Death do upon their Oat
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say, That the said
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Peter Simpson
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, not being of Sound Mind, Memory and Understanding, but
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lunatic and distracted, on the Twenty seventh day of October in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish
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aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, a great Quantity of white Arsenic, being
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deadly Prison into a certain quantity of warm Milk, did then and the put and mix And
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where acrenic so put and Mixt as aforesaid he the said Port
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down, by Means whereof he the said
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Peter Simpson
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became then and
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sich and distempered in hed
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Body, and of the Prison aforesaid, and of the Sickness and Distemper thereby occasioned
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the said
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Peter Simpson
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did Dye the same Day, in the Parish Liberty and County aforesaid
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And so the Jurors aforesaid, upon their Oath aforesaid, do say that the said
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Peter Simpson
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not being of sound Mind, Memory, and Understanding, but lunatic and distracted, in
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Manner and by the Means aforesaid, did Poison and hill himself. In Witness
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whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said
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Francis Blackburn
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, Foreman of the
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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
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and Place fist above written
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Tho. Prickard
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Coroner
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Fran: Blackburn
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Foreman
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