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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 Third day of September in the twenty fifth
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Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, of
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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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the Oath of
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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
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Lydia Oskford
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came to
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h er Death, do upon their Oath say , That the said Lydia Oskford on the second
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day of September in the Year aforesaid, being in a House, then repairing, in Cork
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Street in the Parish aforesaid, within the Liberty and County aforesaid, and coming
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down Stairs in the Dark (being a Well Stair Case) It so happened, that the said
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Lydia Oskford then and there, Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune fell down
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from the said Well Stairs Case unto the bottom thereof and thereby then and
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there, received divers Fractures and Bruises in and upon the Head Arms
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Thighs, and Body of her the said Lydia Oskford, of which said Mortal Fractures
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and Bruises She the said Lydia Oskford then and there did. And so the
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Jurors aforesaid, upon their Oath aforesaid, do say That the said Lydia
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Oskford in manner and by the means aforesaid, Accidentally Casually and
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by Misfortune, came to her Death, and not otherwise. In Witness whereof
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as well the said Coroner as the said
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Michael Munday
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of the said Jurors,
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on the behalf of himself and the Rest of his Fellows, in their Presence, have to this
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Inquisition set their Hands, and Seals, the Day, year, and Place, above
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