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An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London
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aforesaid who being
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now here duly chosen sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord the king
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when how and in what manner the said
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came to her death say
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upon their oath that the said
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on the fourth day of May in the year
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mind memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted did cast and throw
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there situate and in and with the waters of
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the said river was then and there suffocated and drowned of which said suffocation
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and drowning the said
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did then and there die and so the
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Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said
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did
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drown and kill herselfIn witness whereof as well the said
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the foreman of the said Jurors on behalf of himself
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and the rest of his follows in their presence have to this Inquisition set their
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