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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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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
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Hart,
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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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came to his
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Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said
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not being of sound Mind,
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memory and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted on the Twenty ninth Day of October in the
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Year aforesaid
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the
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Two of the Ends of Two Handkerchiefs the one of them Silk the other Linnen
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to a Wooden Rafter in The Rivy belonging to the House of
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of the Parish and County
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aforesaid
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and the other Two Ends of the said Handkerchiefs about his own
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Neck did fix, tye and fasten and there with did then and there hang, suffocate and strangle himself
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of which said Hanging, Suffocation and Strangling he the said
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then and there died
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And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say That the said
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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 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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