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An Inquisition Indented taken for Our Sovereign Lord the King
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the Collegiate Church of
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Day of Augustin the Fifth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third
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by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Saith
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and so forth before
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Gentleman Coroner of our said Lord the King
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for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of
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Rebecca Carpenter
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then and there lying
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Ernest Leslie
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Thomas Hutchins
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, good and lawful men of the said Liberty duly
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chosen, who being then and there duly Sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord the King
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when how. an by what Means the said Rebecca Carpenter came to her Death, do upon
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their Oathsay, That the said Rebecca Carpenter, not being of sound Mind Memory and
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Understanding, but lunatick and distracted, on the Twelfth day of August in the Year
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aforesaid, at the Parish aforesaid within the City Liberty and County aforesaid, into
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the
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, there did cast and throw herself,
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by means of which said Casting and Thowing, she the said Rebecca Carpenter, in the Water
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of the said River, was then and there Suffocated and Drowned, of which said Suffocation and
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Drowning she the said Rebecca Carpenter then and there instantly died. And so the Jurors.
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aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Rebecca Carpenter in Manner and
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by the Means aforesaid, not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick
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and distracted, did drown and hill herself. In Witness where of as well the said
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Coroner, as the said
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Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself
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and the rest of his said Fellows, in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their
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Hands and Seals, the Day Year and Place first above written
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Edwd Harris.
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