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(To wit)}</note>
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AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the parish<lb></lb>
of Saint Matthew <rs type="placeName" id="LMCOIC65102_geo1717">Bethnal Green</rs>
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in the County of<lb></lb>
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, the <rs type="date" id="LMCOIC65102_date268">fourth Day of April in the twenty third Year of the Reign of<lb></lb>
our sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third</rs>
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, by the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France, and<lb></lb>
Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1645-3">Thomas Phillips</rs>
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one of the Coroners of our said Lord the King for the said County, on View of the Body of <lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1645-4">Mary White</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <lb></lb>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1645-16">John Gunon</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1645-17">Thomas Baker</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1645-18">James Tarratt</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1645-19">William Wren</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1645-20">Thomas Hill</rs>
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good and lawful Men of the said County, duly chosen, and who being then and there duly<lb></lb>
sworn and charged to inquire, for our said Lord the King, when, how, and by what Means, the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1645-21">Mary White</rs>
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came to her<lb></lb>
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1645-22">Mary White</rs>
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not being of sound<lb></lb>
Mind Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted on this Fourth<lb></lb>
Day of April in the Year aforesaid One End of a small Cord to a Hook in a<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1645-23">Wooden Beam</rs>
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in the heling of her Parlour situate in the Parish and County<lb></lb>
aforesaid and the other End thereof about her own Check did fix tye and fasten and<lb></lb>
therewith Did then and there hang suffocate and strangle herself Of which said<lb></lb>
Hanging Suffocation and Strangling she the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1645-24">Mary White</rs>
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then and there died<lb></lb>
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1645-25">Mary White</rs>
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not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding<lb></lb>
but Lunatic and distracted in Manner and by the Means aforesaid Did Kill<lb></lb>
herself</p>
<p n="1646"> IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1646-1">John Cosson</rs>
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the Foreman of the said Jurors, on the Behalf of himself and the Rest of his said Fellows, in<lb></lb>
their Presence, have, to this Inquisition, set their Hands and Seals, the Day and Year first<lb></lb>
above written.</p>
<p n="1647"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1647-1">Thos. Phillips</rs>
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<p n="1648">Isaac Cosson<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Foreman</p>
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