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An Inquisition Indented, taken for Our Sovereign Lord the King at the
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of our Sovereign Lord George the Third by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King
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Defender of the Faith and so forth, before
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then and there lying Dead
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upon their Oath of
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James Kennedy
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Charles King
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Nathaniel
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James Johnston
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William Hunter
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William Howard
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Christopher Morgan
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good and lawful Men of the said Liberty duly chosen, who being then and there duty Sworn and
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charged to inquire for our said Lord, the King, when how, and by what Means the said
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Mary
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came to his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said
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Mary Adams
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sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted, on the Seventh day of May
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in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid,
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a great, Quantity of White Arsenic, being a deadly Poison, into a certain quantity of Liquid
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did then and there put and mix; and the said White Arsenic so put and mixt as aforesaid, she
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the said
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, not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatic and distracted
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as aforesaid, did then and there take, drink, and swallow down; by Means whereof she the said
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Mary Adams
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became then and there Sick and distempered in her Body, and of the Poison
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aforesaid and of the Sickness and Distemper thereby occasioned from the said seventh day of May in
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the Year aforesaid, until the Eighth day of the same Month in the same Year, at the Parish aforesaid
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within the Liberty and County, aforesaid, did languish, and languishing did live; on which said Eighth
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day of May in the Year aforesaid at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid
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she the said
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if the Poison aforesaid, and of the Sickness and Distemper occasioned
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thereby, did dye, And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said
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not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted,
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in Manner and by the Means aforesaid, did Poison and kill himself. In Witness whereof
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as well the said Coroner, as the said
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Foreman of the said Jurors, on behalf of
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himself and the rest of his Fellows, in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands,
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and Seals the Day Year and Place first above written
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Thos. Prickard
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Coroner
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James Watkins
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Foreman
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