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An Inquisition Indented, taken Our Sovereign Lord the King
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in the Third Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third by the grace of
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God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so forth, before
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, Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body
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then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of
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Lewis Sulsh
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William Luckie
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William Lowdy
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William Smith
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Thomas Spearing
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Abraham Terry
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George King
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Josiah Day
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John Stone
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Robert Score
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William
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, and
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William King
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good and lawfull Men of the said City and Liberty duly
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chosen, who being then and there duly Sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord, the King, when
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how, and by what means the said
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John Gale
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came to his Death, do upon their Oath say,
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That the said
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John Gale
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, not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and
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distracted, on the thirtieth day of March in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish aforesaid within the
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City Liberty and County aforesaid, one End of a certain piece of small Cord unto one of the Rafters in
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a Shed or Outhouse belonging to
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Mary Craven
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Widow, situate and being in the Broad Way within
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the said Parish Liberty and County, and the other End thereof about his own Neck, did fix, tye, and
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faster, and therewith did then and there hang, suffocate and strangle himself of which
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said Hanging Suffocation and Stranding he the said
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John Gale
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then and there Died. And so
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the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said
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John Gale
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not being of sound
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Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted, in Manner and by the Means-
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aforesaid, did Kill himself. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said
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Lewis
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Foreman of the said Jurors, on behalf of Himself and the rest of his Fellows, in their presence
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have to this Inquisition set their Hands, and Seals the Day Year and Place first above written
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Foreman
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