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AN Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at The Parish of
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the Faith, Etc, before
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one of the Coroners of Our said Lord the
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KING, for the said County, on view of the body of
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then and there lying dead, upon the oath of John Finder John
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Cornvall,
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good and lawful Men of the said County duly chosen as by Law required, and who being then and there duly sworn
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and charged to enquire for our said Lord the KING, when, how, and by what means the said
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came to h is Death, Do upon their Oath say, That the said Samuel
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Hickman not being of sound Mind, Memory and Understanding but Lunatic
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and Distracted on the Twentieth Day of November in the Year aforesaid
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with a certain Sharp Instrument made of Iron and Steel the Throat
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or Gullet of himself did then and there strike, stab and Penetrate thereby
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then and there giving unto himself One Mortal Wound in and upon his said,
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Throat or Gullett Of which said Mortal Wound he the said
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then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say
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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
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Did kill himself
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IN Witness whereof, as well the said Coroner, as the saidthe Foreman of
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the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows, in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their
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Hands and Seals the Day and Year first abovementioned
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