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An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King
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at the Parish of Saint Jameswithin the Liberty of the
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Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter
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the Seventeenth day of March in the SixthYear of the Reign of our Sovereign
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Lord George the Third the Third by the grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King
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King Defender of the Faith and so forth, before
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King for the said City and Liberty, on view of the Body of
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John Brand
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John Abbott
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William Davis
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good and lawfull Men of the said Liberty duly chosen, who being then and there duly Sworn
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and Charged to inquire for our said Lord the King when how, and by what means the said
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Catherine Lamb
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Came to her Death do upon their Oath say, That
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the said
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, not being of sound Mind, Memory and Understanding, but lunatick
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and distracted, on the Sixteenth day of March in the Year aforesaid at the Parish aforesaid
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within the Liberty and County aforesaid, one End of a certain piece of small Cord fastened
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around a Wooden Rail over a Closet Door in the Lodging Room or Apartment of her
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the said
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Catherine Lamb
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, situate and being in a certain place called Naylor's Yards,
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in the said Parish Liberty and County and the other End thereof about her own neck
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did fix, tye, and fasten, and therewith did then and there Hang, suffocate, and Strangle
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herself, of which said Hanging Suffocation and Strangling, she the said
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Catherine Lamb
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then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid, upon their Oath aforesaid, do say
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that the said
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but lunatick and distracted, in Manner and by the Means aforesaid, did hill
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herself. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said
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Samuel
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Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his
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said Fellows, in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals
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the Day Year and Place first abovewritten
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