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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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and understanding but Lunatic and distracted in the Twenty seventh Day of January in
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the Year aforesaid One End of a Silk Handkerchief to the Foot Tester of a Bed in the Dwelling
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other End thereof about his own Neck did fix tye and fasten and therewith did then and there
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