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of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain,
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France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before
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James
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Norris
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Samuel Smallman
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James Whalley
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good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
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chosen, who being then and there duly sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the
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King, when, how, and by what Means the said Susanna Innes came to
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h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That on the Fifth day of May in the Year aforesaid
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the said Susanna Innes Servant to
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Bernard Perny
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, going into the Garden or
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Place behind the House of the said Bernard Perny to empty a Chamber pot,
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in the
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in the County of Surry, and then and there
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lifting up a small line which was (unknown to the said Susanna Innes) fixed
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to the Tri of a certain Gun or Blunderbuss charged with Gunpowder and
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leaden Bullets, in the Larder on the back part of the House of the said Bernard
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Perny, (which said Larder and Garden had been several times broke open and
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Robbed) It so happened that Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune the said
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Gun or Blunderbuss, so loaded and charged as aforesaid, went off and was
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discharged, and she the said Susanna Innes by means of the Discharge of
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the said Blunderbuss as aforesaid, did then and there require one mortal
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Fracture in and upon her left Arm, of which said mortal Fracture she the said
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Susanna Innes from the said fifth day of May in the Year aforesaid until the twenty-
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third day of the same Month and Year at
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within the Liberty and County aforesaid dis languish and
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languishing did live, on which said Twenty third day of May in the Year aforesaid
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she the said Susanna Innes at the Hospital aforesaid, of the mortal Fracture aforesaid
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the said Susanna Innes, in Manner and by the Means aforesaid, accidentally
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casually and by misfortune came to her Death and not otherwise. In Witness
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whereof as well the said Coroner as the said
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Foreman of the
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said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows in
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their presence have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the
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Day Year and Place first above written
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