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<p n="610"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">City and Liberty of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo534">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo535">County of Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit</note>
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An Inquisition Indented taken for Our Sovereign Lord<lb></lb>
the King at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo536">Parish of St. Martin in the Fields</rs>
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within the Liberty of the Dean and<lb></lb>
Chapter of the Collegiate Church of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo537">St. Peter Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo538">County of Middlesex</rs>
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the<lb></lb>
Twenty fourth day of March in the Sixth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third<lb></lb>
by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith<lb></lb>
and so forth before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n610-1">Thomas Prickard</rs>
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Gentleman Coroner of our said Lord the King for the<lb></lb>
said City and Liberty, On View of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n610-14">Nicholas Weigal</rs>
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then and there lying Dead, upon the<lb></lb>
Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n610-2">Benjamin Aked</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n610-3">Thomas Child</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n610-15">William Borrimere</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n610-4">William Rose</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n610-5">Edward Welch</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n610-6">Henry Jordan</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n610-7">James Murphey</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n610-16">William Hewlitt</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n610-8">Rice Jones</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n610-9">John Heather</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n610-10">Joseph Waine</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n610-11">John Solomon</rs>
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, John, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n610-17">Leonard Lansenbury</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n610-12">John Scott</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n610-18">Charles Greene</rs>
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good and lawfull Men of the said Liberty duly<lb></lb>
chosen who being then and there duly Sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord the King<lb></lb>
when, how and by what Means the said Nicholas Weigalcame to his Death, do upon<lb></lb>
their Oath say, That the said Nicholas Weigal, not being of sound Mind Memory and<lb></lb>
Understanding, but lunatick and distracted, on the Twenty third day of March in the Year<lb></lb>
aforesaid, at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, one End of a<lb></lb>
certain Piece of small Cord unto a Wooden Rail at the Head of Bed in the Lodging Room<lb></lb>
or Apartment of him the said Nicholas Weigal, in the Dwelling House of David Preserves,<lb></lb>
instant and being in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo539">Cecil Court</rs>
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, in the said Parish Liberty and County, and the Other End<lb></lb>
thereof about his own Neck, did fix, tye, and fasten, and there with did then and there hang,<lb></lb>
suffocate, and strangle himself, of which said Hanging, Suffocation, and Strangling, he<lb></lb>
the said Nicholas Weigal then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath<lb></lb>
aforesaid, do say, that the said Nicholas Weigal, not being of sound mind, memory and<lb></lb>
Understanding, but lunatick and distracted, in Manner and by the Means aforesaid,<lb></lb>
did kill himself. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said<lb></lb>
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Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of<lb></lb>
his said Fellows, in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and<lb></lb>
Seals the Day Year and Place first abovewritten</p>
<p n="611"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n611-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65206_occ191">Coroner</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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