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Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the third
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the Faith, Etc. before
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the KING, for the said County, on veiw of the body of
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Wheeler,
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good and lawful Men of the said County duly chosen as by law required and who being, then and there duly sworn
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and charged, to enquire for our said Lord the KING, when, how, and by what Means the said
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came to h is Death, Do upon their Oath say, That the said Joseph
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Lodge not being of sound Mind, Memory and Understanding but Lunatic
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and distracted on the fourth Day of October in the Year aforesaid One End of
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a small Cord to a Gimblet in the wall of his Apartment in the House of
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Wright situate in the Parish and County aforesaid and the other
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End thereof about his own Neck did fix tye and fasten and therewith did then
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and there hang, suffocate and strangle himself, of which said Hanging Suffocation
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and Strangling he the said
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then and there died And so the Jurors
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aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say That the said
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Joseph Lodge
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not being
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of sound Mind, Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted in
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manner and by the Means aforesaid did kill himself
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In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said,
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Joseph Ellis
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the Foreman of
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the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows, in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their
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Hands and Seals the Day and Year first abovementioned
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Joseph Ellis
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