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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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Monk,
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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 on the fourth Day of April in the Year aforesaid the
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in the Parish of Saint Dunstan Stepney in the County aforesaid in which
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said Publick Alehouse One Michael Pendergrass late of the said Hamlet Labourer and also divers other
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then and there without any Cause or Provocation
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whatsoever given by the said Michael Pendergrass in and upon him the said
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in the Peace of God and of our said Lord the King then and there being violently did make an Assault
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and him the said Michael Pendergrass did then and there strike and beat Whereupon the said
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for the Preservation and Safety of his Person and of inevitable necessity
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did then and there with the Hands of him the said Michael Pendergrass defend himself against
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such the violent Assault of him the said
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did then and there receive against the Will of him the said
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divers Blows and also a Fall to and upon the Ground which brought an apoplexy upon him the said John
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Bolgier of which said Apoplexy occasioned in Manner as aforesaid he the said
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Day of April in the Year aforesaid untill the Fifth Day of the same month in the same Year at the
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Hamlet aforesaid And also at the Parish of Saint
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Mary White
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Chapell aforesaid in the County aforesaid
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to wit in the
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London Hospital
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there situate did languish and languishing did live On which said fifth
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Day of April in the Year aforesaid he the said
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John Bolgier
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in
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the Hospital
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aforesaid of the Apoplexy
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aforesaid did die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say That the said Michael
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Pendergrass in
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the Defence of himself him the said
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John Bolgier
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in manner and by the means aforesaid
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did kill and slay
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IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said
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Thom
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John Youings
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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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Thos. Phillips
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John Youings
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Foreman
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