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AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the Liberty
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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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of December in the Year aforesaid being an Infant of the Age of three years or thereabouts and
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their Presence, have, to this Inquisition, set their Hands and Seals, the Day and Year first
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