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An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
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, the Fourteenth day of June in the Thirtieth
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Great-Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before
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, Gentleman, Coroner 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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Edward Witherington
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James Squibb
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Strachan
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Thomas Bandy
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William Langstaff
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, Beece
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Morgan and
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David Myers
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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 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 er Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said
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Mary Steel
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not being
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of sound Mind Memory and Understanding but Lunatick and distracted
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on the Eleventh day of June in the Year aforesaid, out of and through a
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certain Window in the Dwelling House of Dr.
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William Rowley
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situate in
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Saville Row, at the said Parish of Saint James within the Liberty and
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County aforesaid, at the Heighth of three Story's unto the Ground, did cast and
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throw herself by means whereof the said
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did then and there
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receive divers mortal Fractures and Bruises in and upon the left Thigh
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and left Ancle of her the said
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of which said mortal Fractures
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and Bruises she the said
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Mary Steel
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then and there instantly died.
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And so the Jurors aforesaid upon theirs Oath aforesaid do say, that the
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said
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Mary Steel
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not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding
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but Lunatic and distracted in manner and by the means aforesaid did
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kill herself
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In Witness whereof as well the said
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Coroner as the said Samuel Hawes Foreman at the said Jurors, on
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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
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and Place abovementioned
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Foreman
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