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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo1655">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 Parish of Saint Jameswithin the Liberty of the Dean and<lb></lb>
Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo1656">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo1657">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the<lb></lb>
Twenty third day of September in the Sixth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George<lb></lb>
the Third 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_n1747-1">Thomas Prickard</rs>
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Gentleman Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said<lb></lb>
City and Liberty, On View of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n1747-2">John Brown</rs>
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Clerk <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65206_occ540">Doctor in Divinity</rs>
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then and there<lb></lb>
lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n1747-25">Samuel Mattayer</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n1747-3">Robert Bethell</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n1747-4">Francis Wanion</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n1747-5">Thomas Harrache</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n1747-7">Thomas Daw</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n1747-8">Henry Starr</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n1747-23">Benjamin Frear</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n1747-9">James Darbyshire</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n1747-10">George Smith</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n1747-11">James Foy</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n1747-12">John Webster</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n1747-24">John<lb></lb>
Hamshaw</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n1747-13">Evan Morris</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n1747-14">Thomas Burnby</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n1747-15">William Wilman</rs>
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, good and lawfull Men of the said Liberty duly chosen<lb></lb>
who being then and there duly Sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord the King, when<lb></lb>
how, and by what Means the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n1747-16">John Brown</rs>
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came to his Death, do upon their Oath say<lb></lb>
That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n1747-17">John Brown</rs>
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, not being of sound Mind, Memory and Understanding, but lunatick<lb></lb>
and distracted, on the said Twenty third day of September in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish aforesaid<lb></lb>
within the Liberty and County aforesaid, in the Dwelling House of<lb></lb>
with a certain Razer made of Iron and Steel, which he the Neck of him the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n1747-18">John<lb></lb>
Brown</rs>
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, did then and there strike, stab and penetrate, thereby then and there giving unto<lb></lb>
him faith the Bagan aforesaid in and upon the Right side of the back of him<obscured></obscured>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n1747-19">John<lb></lb>
Brown</rs>
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, one mortal Wound, of the Length of one Inch, and of the Depth of one Inch, of which<lb></lb>
said mortal Wound he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n1747-20">John Brown</rs>
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then and there instantly died. And so the<lb></lb>
Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n1747-21">John Brown</rs>
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, not being<lb></lb>
of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted, in Manner and<lb></lb>
by the Means aforesaid, did kill himself. In Witness whereof as well the said<lb></lb>
Coroner, as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n1747-22">Samuel Mettayer</rs>
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Foreman of the said Jurors, on behalf of<lb></lb>
himself, and the rest of his said Fellows, in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their<lb></lb>
Hands and Seals, the Day Year and Place first above written</p>
<p n="1748"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n1748-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<p n="1749">Saml. Mettayer Foreman</p>
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