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AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
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Hawes Robert Hornes
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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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Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted on the Fourteenth Day of February in the
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Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the County aforesaid a great Quantity (to wit) Half an Ounce
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mix And the said
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thereby occasioned she the said
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Sarah Wagstaff
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then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon
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their Oath aforesaid do say That the said
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Sarah Wagstaff
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not bing of sound Mind Memory
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and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted in Manner and by the Means aforesaid did kill herself
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IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said
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Thomas Shuter
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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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</
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>
their Presence, have, to this Inquisition, set their Hands and Seals, the Day and Year first
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>
</
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>
above written.
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Thos. Phillips
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Thos Shuter
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Foreman
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>
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