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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 to forth, before
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Smith, James Godsell the Elder and
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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 Twenty first Day of April in the Year aforesaid
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at the Parish and in the County aforesaid being employed to Unload from a Certain Cart Two Casks filled with Horse hair then being in the said Cart It
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so happened that in Striking and Unloading of the said two Casks one of the said Casks so filled as aforesaid Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune
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Rolled forceably out of the said Cart And the said
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Over the Head and Body of the said
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so being upon the Ground as aforesaid by Means whereof he the said
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then and there Received one Mortal Wound and fracture of the Skull of him the said
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of which said Mortal Wound and Fracture he the said
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then and there Instantly died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said Richard
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in Manner and by the Means aforesaid Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune Came to his Death and not Otherwise And
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that the said Cask so filled with hair as aforesaid was the Cause of the Death of the said
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County aforesaid Merchant or of his Assigns
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IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said
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James Hill
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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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and
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Year and place first
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above written.
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Thos. Phillips
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James Hall
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Foreman
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