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An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
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in the thirty sixth 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 Faith,
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lying dead, upon the Oath of the several Jurors whose Names are hereunder written, and
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Seals affixed, good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly chosen, who being then and
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there duly sworn and charged to enquire of our said Lord the King, when, how, and by
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Memory and Understanding but lunatic and distracted on the twentieth
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one end of a certain Cord about his own Neck and the other end there of unto
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