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AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish of
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Saint Luke in the County of
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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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Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said
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of December in the Year aforesaid being in her Apartment in
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County aforesaid with same Fire burning in an Earthen Pot under her Cloaths It so happened
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That the Linnen Shift which she the said
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accidentally casually and by Misfortune took Fire By, means whereof the Legs, Knees Thighs
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were then and there mortally scorch'd and burnt of
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from the said twenty
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fifth Day of December in the year aforesaid untill the Twenty sixth Day of the same Month in
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the same Year at the Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid did languish and Languishing
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did live on which said Twenty sixth Day of December in the year aforesaid she 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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