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<p n="574"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">London</note>
An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London<lb></lb>
(that is to say) at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65011_geo505">parish of Saint Mary Magdalen</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65011_geo506">Ward of Castle baynard</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65011_geo507">London</rs>
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aforesaid on the <rs type="date" id="LMCLIC65011_date38">twelfth day of April in the thirty eighth year of the<lb></lb>
reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third King of Great Britain and so forth</rs>
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before<lb></lb>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65011_occ255">Coroner</rs>
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of our said Lord the King for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65011_geo508">City of London</rs>
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and Brough of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65011_geo509">Southwark</rs>
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on view of the body of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65011_n574-6">Richard Padget</rs>
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now here lying<lb></lb>
dead by the oath of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65011_n574-7">George Brown</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65011_n574-8">James Melvin</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65011_n574-9">Daniel Allen</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65011_n574-10">Stephen Chapman</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65011_n574-11">Joseph New</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65011_n574-12">Joseph Bunkar</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65011_n574-13">Charles Rowley</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65011_n574-14">Charles Burnett</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65011_n574-15">John Pearce</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65011_n574-16">Robert<lb></lb>
Brinyard,</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65011_n574-17">John Anderson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65011_n574-18">Benjamin Marchant</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65011_n574-19">Thomas Jones</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65011_n574-20">John Gammon</rs>
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good and lawful men of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65011_geo510">City of London</rs>
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aforesaid who being now here duly<lb></lb>
chosen sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord the King when how and in<lb></lb>
what manner the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65011_n574-21">Richard Padget</rs>
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came to his death say upon their oath that<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65011_n574-22">Richard Padget</rs>
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not being of sound mind memory and understanding but<lb></lb>
lunatic and distracted on the eleventh day of April in the year aforesaid at the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65011_geo511">parish and Ward</rs>
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aforesaid in <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65011_geo512">London</rs>
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aforesaid one end of a certain piece of Cord<lb></lb>
of no value unto and about a certain hook fixed in a beam in the Cellar of the dwelling<lb></lb>
house of him the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65011_n574-23">Richard Padget</rs>
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there situate and the other end of the said piece of Cord<lb></lb>
round and about his own neck did then and there fix tye and fasten by means whereof the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65011_n574-24">Richard Padget</rs>
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did then and there hang strangle and suffocate himself of which said hanging<lb></lb>
strangling and suffocation he the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65011_n574-25">Richard Padget</rs>
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did then and thew die. And so the Jurors<lb></lb>
aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65011_n574-26">Richard Padget</rs>
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not being of sound<lb></lb>
mind memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted did hang and Kill himself<lb></lb>
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65011_n574-27">George Brown</rs>
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the foreman of<lb></lb>
the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his fellows in their presence have<lb></lb>
to this Inquisition set their hands and seals the day year and place first abovewritten.<lb></lb>
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<p n="575"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65011_n575-1">George Brown</rs>
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