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AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Dwelling House
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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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, Joseph Blanford, Tower Frances John
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Parup Joseph Barnett,
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John Bishop
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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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said George Pearch came to his
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Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said George Pearch not being of Sound Mind Memory and understanding but
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and Distracted on the Twenty first Day of April in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the County aforesaid one End of a Certain
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Piece of Hempen lord Called Halter of the Value of Two Pence fastened unto a beam in a Certain Hayloft over a low house Adjoining
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the Dwelling House of the said George Pearch there Situate and being And the other End thereof about his own Neck did fix tye and
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fasten and therewith did then and there hang Suffocate and Strangle himself of which said Hanging Suffocation and Strangling he the
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said George Pearch did then and there Instantly die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said George
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Pearch not being of Sound Mind Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and Distracted in Manner and by the Means aforesaid
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did kill himself
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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
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Year and place first
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Robt Bryant
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