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An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to say
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at the parish of Saint Bridget alias Bride in the
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in thirty third
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the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third by the grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland
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King defender of the faith and so forth before
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the King for the
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John Freeman
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here lying dead by the Oath of
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, Lewis Duorog John Pewsey,
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, good and lawful men of the
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aforesaid who being now
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here duly chosen Sworn and charged to inquire for our Lord the King when how and in what manner
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came to his death say upon their Oath that the said
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on the Sixteenth
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day of November in the year aforesaid being in a certain Chamber on the third floor in the dwelling
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house of one Mrs Harvey situate and being in the
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Memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted violently and forcibly did throw and cast himself
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from and out of the said Window of the said vhambers to and against the ground
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there by means whereof he the said
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Wound and Contusion in and upon the back of him the said
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of which said Mortal
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Wound and Contusion he the said
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did then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid
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upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said
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not being of sound mind memory and
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understanding but lunatic and distracted in manner and by the means aforesaid did kill himself
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In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said
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the foreman of the said
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Jurors in behalf of himself and the rest of his fellows in their presence have to this Inquisition set
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their hands and seals the day year and place first above written
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