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An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
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King at the
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, the furth day of April in the twenty fifth
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Great Britain, France and Ireland; King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before
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of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on
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then and there lying dead, upon
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, James Ayrs,
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Watkins
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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 enquire for our said Lord the
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King, when, how, and by what Means the said John Tobias Le Motte came to
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h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said John Tobias
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Le Motte, (suspected to have been lately Murdered, on
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the said fourth day of April in the Year aforesaid
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was found dead in the Parish aforesaid within
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the Liberty and County aforesaid, And that the
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said John Tobias Le Motte came not to his Death by
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any violent Means or Manner whatsoever, to the
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Knowledge of the said Jurors.
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In Witness whereof as well the said
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as the said
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of the said
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Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his
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Fellows, in their presence, have to this Inquisition
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set their Hand and Seals, the Day Year and Place
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abovementioned
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