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who being now here duly chosen sworn and charged to inquire aforesaid Lord the King when how and in what manner the said
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to his death say upon their oath that the said
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tenth day of August in the twenty eight year aforesaid at the parish and Ward aforesaid in
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Rope unto and about a certain Wooden Beam in a certain Left belonging to the Dwellinghouse of one George Eader there situate and the other and
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thereof unto and about his own Neck there and there did Sixtie and fasten by means whereof he the said
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suffocated and strangle himself Of which said hanging suffocation and stangling he the said
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did then and there die And
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so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said
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the foreman of the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his fellows in their presence have to this Inquisition
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set their hands and seals the day and year and place first above written
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