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France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
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Isaac Day
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John
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Brown
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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 Elizabeth Blockley Came to
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h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Elizabeth Blockley, not being
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of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted,
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on the Nineteenth day of March in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish
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and in the Liberty and County aforesaid, one End of a certain piece
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of small Cord unto an Iron Spike fastened into a Wooden Beam in the
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Lumber-room in the dwelling House of the Right Honourable the Earl
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of Waldegrave situate and being in the said Parish Liberty and County,
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and the other End thereof about her own Neck, did fix tye and fasten,
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and there with did then and there hand suffocate and strangle
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herself, of which said Hanging Suffocation and Strangling she the
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said Elizabeth Blockley then and there died. And so the Jurors
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aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Elizabeth
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Blockley, not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but
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lunatick and distracted, in Manner and by the Means aforesaid did kill
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herself In Witness where of as well the said Coroner, as the said
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Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the
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rest of his Fellows, in their Presence, have to this Inquisition set their
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Hands and Seals, the Day Year and Place first above written
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Isaac Day Foreman
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