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An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
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, the Sixteenth 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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then and there lying dead, upon
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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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came to
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h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said
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Thomas Brown
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not being
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of sound mind, memory and understanding, but
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lunatick
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distracted, on the fifteenth day of September in the year aforesaid, at the
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Parish aforesaid, within the Liberty and County aforesaid, on End of a
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certain peice of small Cord unto an Iron Staple fastened into the ceiling in
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the lodging Room and Apartment of him the said
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situate and being in the Parish,
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Liberty, and County aforesaid, and the other End thereof about his own
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Neck did fire, tye and fasten, and therewith did then and there, hang
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suffocate, and strangle himself of which said hanging suffocation
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and strangling, he the said
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then and there died
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And so the Jurors aforesaid, upon their Oath aforesaid, do say,
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, not being of sound Mind Memory and
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Understanding, but Lunatick and distracted in manner and by
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the Means aforesaid, did kill himself. In Witness whereof as well
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the said Coroner as the said
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James Greenfield
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foreman of the said Jurors
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on the behalf of himself and the Rest of his Fellows, in their Presence,
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have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals, the Day Year and
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Place, above mentioned
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James Greenfield
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