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Good and lawfull Men of the sd. City who being sworn and
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charged to enquire for our said Present Sovereign Lord the King when, where, how, by
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their said Oath That
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Instigation of the Devil on the Twenty third Day of the same Month of March in the Year
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became sick and distempered in his Body of which said Sickness and Distemper he the
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said
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John Davison
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languished and languishing did his from the said Twenty third Day
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of March to the Twenty Ninth Day of the said Month of March in Year aforesaid
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at the parish aforesaid in the Ward aforesaid in the City aforesaid on which said
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Twenty Ninth Day of March the Sd.
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John Davison
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of the Sd. Sickness and Distemper
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occasioned by the
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Drinking and swallowing down of the said Milk so mixed & mingled
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with the said Drug called Jallop as aforesd. did die And that one
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Joseph Johnson
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late
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of the Parish aforesaid in the Ward aforesaid in the City aforesd.
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Labourer
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at the Time of
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the Felony aforesd. done and committed by the said
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Henry Pestell
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then and there was
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present aiding and abetting the said
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Henry Pestell
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the Felony aforesaid in Manner and
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From aforesd. to commit and do And so the Jurors aforesd. upon their Oath aforesaid do
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say That the said
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Henry Pestell
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and
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Joseph Johnson
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him the said
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John Davison
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in Manner
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