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AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish
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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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on the Twenty Eighth Day
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of December in the Year aforesaid being an Infant of the Age of Two Years on thereabouts and being
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Standing near a Fire which was then burning in the Apartment of his Father
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on the said Fire then and there accidentally casually and by Misfortune fell
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were then and there mortally scalded and burnt of which said mortal
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in the Year aforesaid untill the twenty ninth Day of the same Month in the same Year
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as the Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid did languish and Languishing did live on
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which said Twenty ninth Day of December in the Year aforesaid he the said
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at the Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid of the mortal Scalding and Burning aforesaid
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did die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say That the said William
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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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