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AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the
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good and lawful Men of the said County, duly chosen, and who being then and there duly
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sworn and charged to inquire, for our said Lord the King, when, how, and by what Means, the
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Mind. Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted on the Nineteenth
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Day of June in the Year aforesaid One End of a small lord to a Wooden Rafter in the
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aforesaid and the other End thereof about her own Neck Did fix tye and fasten
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the Foreman of the said Jurors, on the Behalf of himself and the Rest of his said Fellows, in
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their Presence, have, to this Inquisition, set their Hands and Seals, the Day and Year first
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