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AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Hamlet
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Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third
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Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before
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one of the Coroners of our said Lord the King for the said County, on View of the Body of
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a Man unknown then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
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Jacob Callaway
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James Ruder
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John Handley
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John Midford
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Samuel Springall
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good and lawful Men of the said County, duly chosen, and who being then and there duly
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sworn and charged to inquire, for our said Lord the King, when, how, and by what Means, the
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said Man unknown came to his
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Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said Man unknown not being of sound mind
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Memory and understanding but Lunatic and Distracted on the Sixteenth Day of May
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in the Year aforesaid at The Hamlet aforesaid in The parish and County aforesaid himself
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into a certain Piece
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of Water there situate called Poplar Gut Did Cast and throw By Means
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of which said casting and Throwing he the said Man unknown was in the Waters thereof
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then and there suffocated and Drowned of which said Suffocation and Drowning he the said
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Man unknown then and there Died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do
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Say That the said Man unknown not being of sound Mind Memory and understanding
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but Lunatic and distracted in Manner and by the Means aforesaid Did drown and kill himself
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IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said
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the Foreman of the said Jurors, on the Behalf of himself and the Rest of his said Fellows, in
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their Presence, have, to this Inquisition, set their Hands and Seals, the Day and Year first
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above written.
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