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<p n="557"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">City and Liberty of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo485">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo486">County of Middlesex</rs>
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An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King<lb></lb>
at the Parish of Saint Jameswithin the Liberty of the<lb></lb>
Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo487">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo488">County of Middlesex</rs>
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the Seventeenth day of March in the SixthYear of the Reign of our Sovereign<lb></lb>
Lord George the Third the Third by the grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King<lb></lb>
King Defender of the Faith and so forth, before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n557-1">Thomas prickard</rs>
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Gentleman Coroner of our said Lord the<lb></lb>
King for the said City and Liberty, on view of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n557-2">Catherine Lamb</rs>
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then and there lying<lb></lb>
Dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n557-3">Samuel Blanch</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n557-22">William Scudder</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n557-4">Robert Waight</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n557-5">Henry Haynes</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n557-6">Robert Saunders</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n557-7">John Atkinson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n557-8">James Baker</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n557-9">John Carver</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n557-10">George Gerrard</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n557-11">Thomas Smith</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n557-12">John Brand</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n577-23">Thomas Berny</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n557-13">John Abbott</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n557-14">William Davis</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n557-15">John Spence</rs>
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good and lawfull Men of the said Liberty duly chosen, who being then and there duly Sworn<lb></lb>
and Charged to inquire for our said Lord the King when how, and by what means the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n557-16">Catherine Lamb</rs>
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Came to her Death do upon their Oath say, That<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n557-17">Catherine Lamb</rs>
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, not being of sound Mind, Memory and Understanding, but lunatick<lb></lb>
and distracted, on the Sixteenth day of March in the Year aforesaid at the Parish aforesaid<lb></lb>
within the Liberty and County aforesaid, one End of a certain piece of small Cord fastened<lb></lb>
around a Wooden Rail over a Closet Door in the Lodging Room or Apartment of her<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n557-18">Catherine Lamb</rs>
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, situate and being in a certain place called Naylor's Yards,<lb></lb>
in the said Parish Liberty and County and the other End thereof about her own neck<lb></lb>
did fix, tye, and fasten, and therewith did then and there Hang, suffocate, and Strangle<lb></lb>
herself, of which said Hanging Suffocation and Strangling, she the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n557-19">Catherine Lamb</rs>
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then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid, upon their Oath aforesaid, do say<lb></lb>
that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n557-20">Catherine Lamb</rs>
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, not being of sound Mind memory and Understanding<lb></lb>
but lunatick and distracted, in Manner and by the Means aforesaid, did hill<lb></lb>
herself. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n557-21">Samuel<lb></lb>
Blanch</rs>
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Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his<lb></lb>
said Fellows, in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals<lb></lb>
the Day Year and Place first abovewritten</p>
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<p n="559"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n559-1">Sam Blanch</rs>
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foreman</p>
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