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France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before
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Good and Lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
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Chosen, when, 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 Mark Aldersey came to
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his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Mark Aldersey not being of
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sound Mind Memory and Unerstanding but lunatick and distracted,
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on the Tenth day of May in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the
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Liberty and County aforesaid a great Quantity of Sublimate being a
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deadly Poison, into a certain Quantity of hot Water, did then and there put
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and mix, and the said Sublimate so put and mixt as aforesaid, he the said
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Mark Aldersey not being of sound mind Memory and Understanding but
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lunatick and distracted as aforesaid, did then and there take drink and
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swallow down, by Means whereof he the said Mark Aldersey becme then and
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there sick and distempered in his Body, and of the Poison aforesaid, and of
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the Sickness and Distemper thereby occasioned, from the said Tenth day of
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May in the Year aforesaid until the said fifteenth day of the Same month
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at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid did languish and
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languishing did live on which said Fifteenth day of May in the Year aforesaid
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at the Parish an in the Liberty and County aforesaid, he the said Mark
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Aldersey of the Poison aforesaid, and of the Sickness and Distemper occasioned
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thereby, did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say
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that the said Mark Aldersey, not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding
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but lunatick and distracted, in Manner and by the Means aforesaid, did Poison
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and kill himself. In Witness where of as Well the said Coroner as the said
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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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