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AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Hamlet of
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, King Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before
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one of the Coroners of our said Lord the King for the said County, on View of the Body of
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Chambers,
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Eyton Ambrose
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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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came to his
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Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said
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on the Sixth Day of March
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in the Year aforesaid being an Infant of the Age of two years and three Quarters or thereabouts
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and being in a Two pair of Stairs Room in the Hamlet aforesaid in the Parish and County
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aforesaid in which a Fire was then burning It so happened That a Quart mug full of
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which was standing near the said Fire then and there accidentally, casually
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and by Misfortune fell on the said
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and Body of him the said
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were then and there mortally scalded and burnt, of
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which said mortal Scalding and Burning he the said
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from the said sixth
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Day of March in the Year aforesaid untill the Ninth Day of the same month in the
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same Year at the Hamlet Parish and County aforesaid
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did
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Languish and Languishing did live on which said Ninth Day of March in the Year
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aforesaid he the said
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of the Mortal Scalding and Burning aforesaid did die And So the Jurors aforesaid upon their
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Oath aforesaid do say That the said
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in Manner and by the Means aforesaid accidentally
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casually and by misfortune came to his 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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above written.
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Matt Gall
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Foreman
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