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France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before
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Samuel Smallman
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John Coates
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Richard Scrace
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Robert Holland
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Joseph Whalley
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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
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Letitia Hill
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came to
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h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Letitia Hill not being of sound
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Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted on the Sixteenth
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day of May in the Year aforesaid, at
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in the County aforesaid,
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with a certain Iron Hammer which she the said Letitia Hill then and
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there had and held in her Right Hand, in and upon the Head of her the
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said Letitia Hill did then and there several times strike and beat, thereby
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then and there giving unto herself with the Hammer aforesaid, one mortal
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Wound and one mortal Fracture in and upon the Crown of the Head of her the
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said Letitia Hill, of which said mortal Wound and Fracture she the said
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Letitia Hill from the said Sixteenth day of May in the Year aforesaid until
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the Twenty sixth day of the same Month in the
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the Hospital aforesaid within the Parish Liberty and County aforesaid
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of the mortal Wound and Fracture aforesaid did die And so the Jurors
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aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said Letitia Hill not
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being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding but lunatick and distracted
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in Manner and by the Means aforesaid did kill herself In Witness
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whereof as well the said Coroner as the said
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the 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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