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France and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before
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Hartley
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Joseph Taylor
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Stephen
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Toplas
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Francis Jander
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Richard Ayres
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Richard Knowles
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William Ryan
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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
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Judith Baldwin
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came to
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her Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said
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Judith Baldwin
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, not being
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of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted,
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on the Twenty Second day of January in the Year aforesaid at the
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Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid, one End of a certain
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in the Yard of her the said
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Judith Baldwin
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in the said Parish Liberty and County, and the other End
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thereof about her own Neck did fix tye and fasten, and therewith
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said then and there hang suffocate and strangle himself of which
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said Hanging Suffocation and Strangling she the said
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Judith Baldwin
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then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath
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aforesaid do say, that the said
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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 James Bick Foreman
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of the said Jurors, have to this Inquisition set their Hands
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and Seals the Day Year and Place first abovewritten
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