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An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
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King, at the Parish of Saint Margaret
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within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter,
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, the fourteenth day of January in the twenty fifth
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Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, of
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Great Britain, France and Ireland, King Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before
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of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on
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then and there lying dead, upon
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the Oath of
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James Abbott
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William Piper
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John Leathers
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Joseph Dixon
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John Barrett
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John Moore
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Richard
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Edleston
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William Pattison
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Daniel Boyce
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William
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Woods
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Henry Collin
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and
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Esau Alfred
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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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Mary Foster
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came to
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her Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said
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Mary Foster
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on the
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Eleventh day of November in the Year aforesaid was standing
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in a Place called the New Way in the Parish aforesaid within
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the Liberty and County aforesaid, And being in Liquor, It
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so happened that the said
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Mary Foster
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then and there Accidentally
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Casually and by Misfortune fell down, and thereby received a Mortal
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Fracture in and upon the Left Leg of has aforesaid
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Mary
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Foster
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, of which said mortal Fracture she the said
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Mary
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Foster
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at the said
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Parish of Saint Margaret
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with in the
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Liberty and County aforesaid until the Twelfth day of
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January in the Year aforesaid languished and lived, On
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which said Twelfth day of January in the Year aforesaid
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at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid
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she the said
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Mary Foster
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of the mortal Fracture aforesaid did die
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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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Mary Foster
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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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James Abbott
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Foreman of the said Jurors on the behalf of
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himself and the rest of his Fellows, in their presence, have
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to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day Year
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and Place abovementioned
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