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In Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
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Twenty fifth day of June
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in the Fourteenth Year
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France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before
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Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of
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John Parke
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
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Joseph
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Richard Williams
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John Smith
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Samuel Ray
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Thomas Gladwin
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William
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Crandell
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Christopher Hawkes
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John Emerson
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Humphry Wheelright
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Joseph Smith
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John
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Morrison
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and
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Jarvis Littlefear
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good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
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chosen, who being then and there duly sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the
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King, when, how, and by what Means the said
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John Parke
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came to
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his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said
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John Parke
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, not being of sound
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Mind Memory and Understanding but lunatick and distracted
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on the Twenty fourth day of June in the Year aforesaid one End of a certain
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Piece of Worsted Lace unto one of the Wooden Rafters of a Shed
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adjoining to the dwelling House of the said
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John Parke
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situate in
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Blue Anchor Yard
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in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and
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County aforesaid, and the other End thereof about his own Neck
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did fix tye and fasten, and therewith did then and there hang
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Suffocate and strangle himself, of which said Hanging Suffocation
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and Strangling he the said
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John Parke
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then and there died.
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And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say,
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that the said
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John Parke
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, in Manner and by the Means aforesaid,
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came to his Death, not being of sound Mind Memory and
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Understanding but lunatick and distracted as aforesaid. In Witness
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whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said
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Joseph Ashmore
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Foreman
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of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows
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in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals,
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the Day Year and Place first above written
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Jos. Ashmore
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