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AN INQUISITION Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish of
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our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third
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Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath 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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Mary Larry
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came to her
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Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Mary Larry on the Twenty seventh Day
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of February in the Year aforesaid being an Infant of the Age of Two Years or thereabouts
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And being alone in a Two Pair of Stairs Room in Darby Street in the Parish of Saint Botolph
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in the County aforesaid in which Room a Coal Fire was then Burning It so happened
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That the Cotton Bed Gown which she the said
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had on and were then and there accidentally
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casually and by misfortune took Fire By means whereof the Head Breast, Body and Thighs
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of her the said
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were then and there, mortally searched and burnt, Of which said mortal
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Scorching and Burning she the said
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from the said Twenty seventh Day of February
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in the year aforesaid untill the Twenty Eighth Day of the same month in the same year
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at the Parish last aforesaid and also at the Parish of Saint Mary White Chapell aforesaid
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to wit in a certain Hospital called
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did Languish and Languishing did live on which said Twenty Eighth Day of February
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in the Year aforesaid she the said
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aforesaid of the mortal
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Scorching and Burning aforesaid did die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid
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Do say That the said Mary Larry in manner and by the means aforesaid accidentally casually
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and by misfortune came to her Death
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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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