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AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish
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Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before
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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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said Man Unknown came to his
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Tenth Day
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in the Parish and County aforesaid That the said Man unknown
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had not any Marks of Violence appearing about him and how on by what Meanes he
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IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said
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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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