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<p n="448"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">London</note>
An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King as London<lb></lb>
(that is to say) at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65011_geo391">parish of Saint Catherine Cree Church</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65011_geo392">Ward of Aldgate</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65011_geo393">London</rs>
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aforesaid on the <rs type="date" id="LMCLIC65011_date30">thirty first day of March in the thirty eighth year of<lb></lb>
the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third King of Great Britain and so<lb></lb>
forth</rs>
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before <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65011_n448-2">Thomas Shelton</rs>
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of our said Lord the King for the<lb></lb>
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and Brough of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65011_geo395">Southwark</rs>
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on view of the body of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65011_n448-3">Sarah Gascoigne</rs>
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now here lying dead by the oath of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65011_n448-4">Charles Howell</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65011_n448-5">John Howel</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65011_n448-6">George Shuter</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65011_n448-7">William Blackburn</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65011_n448-8">Timstry Janson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65011_n448-9">Lewis Jones</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65011_n448-10">James Davis</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65011_n448-11">Thomas Chapman</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65011_n448-12">Robert Wicksteed</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65011_n448-13">Thomas Stracey</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65011_n448-14">George Taylor</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65011_n448-15">William Edmonds</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65011_n448-16">Thomas Mapp</rs>
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, John<lb></lb>
Lowden, Dexter Roberts, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65011_n448-17">Benjamin Rankin</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65011_n448-18">Abraham Howell</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65011_n448-19">Robert Holland</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65011_n448-20">Edward Ubley</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65011_n448-21">John Hurnall</rs>
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, good and lawful men of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65011_geo396">City of London</rs>
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afsd<lb></lb>
who being now here duly chosen sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord<lb></lb>
the King when how and in what manner the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65011_n448-22">Sarah Gascoigne</rs>
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came to her<lb></lb>
death say upon their oath that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65011_n448-23">Sarah Gascoigne</rs>
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on the thirtieth day of<lb></lb>
March in the year aforesaid not being of sound mind memory and understanding but<lb></lb>
lunatic and distracted one end of a certain piece of Cord of no value unto and about<lb></lb>
the foot part of a certain bedstead in a room in the dwelling house of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65011_n448-24">Robert Rayner</rs>
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<lb></lb>
there situate and the other end of the said piece of Cord round and about her own<lb></lb>
neck did then and there fix tye and fasten by means whereof the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65011_n448-25">Sarah Gascoigne</rs>
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<lb></lb>
did then and there hang strangle and suffocate herself of which said hanging strangling<lb></lb>
and suffocation the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65011_n448-26">Sarah Gascoigne</rs>
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did then and there die.And so the Jurors<lb></lb>
aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65011_n448-27">Sarah Gascoigne</rs>
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not being of<lb></lb>
sound mind memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted did hang and<lb></lb>
Kill herself.In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65011_n448-28">Charles Howell</rs>
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<lb></lb>
the foreman of the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his fellows in their<lb></lb>
presence have to this Inquisition set their hands and seals the day year and<lb></lb>
place first above written.</p>
<p n="449"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65011_n449-1">Chas Howell</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65011_occ160">Foreman.</rs>
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