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An Inquisition indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King at the Hamlet of
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George the third
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the Faith and so forth before
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then and there lying dead upon the Oath of John
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Porter Thomas Pattinden
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good and lawful Men of the said County, duly
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chosen, and who being then and there duly sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord
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the King, when, how, and by what means, the said
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came to his Death, do
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upon their Oath, say That the said
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on the Twenty third Day of
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December in the Year aforesaid being on a Deal Board which he had laid between
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then and there died And so
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the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say that the said
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