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AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at The
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our sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third
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Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before
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Michael Weymouth
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Atkins Thomas
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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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came to his
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Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said
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on the Fourteenth Day of
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November in the Year aforesaid being Crossing The Kings Highway near The Parkhouse
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in the Hamlet aforesaid in the Parish land County aforesaid And a certain Horse
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drawing a Cart Coming furiously along the said Highway It so happened That
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the said Horse then and there accidentally, casually and by Misfortune struck
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in and upon the Right Side of the Head of him the said John
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Bath By Means whereof he the said
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in and upon the said Right Side of the Head of him the said
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he the said
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Died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their
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aforesaid Do say
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The the said
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in Manner and by the Memory aforesaid accidentally
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casually and by Misfortune Came to his Death and That the said Horse was the
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cause of the Death of the said
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and is of the Value of Ten Shillings
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and the Property and in the Possession of
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of the Parish of
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in the said County
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or of his Assigns
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IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said
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Obadiah Woodcock
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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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Thos. Phillips
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Obah. Woodcock
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Foreman
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