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<p n="1852"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65211_geo1415">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65211_geo1416">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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}<lb></lb>
to wit.</note>
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<p n="1853"> An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King, at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65211_geo1417">Parish of St. James<lb></lb>
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65211_geo1418">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65211_date391">Twenty Seventh day of November</rs>
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in the Twelfth Year<lb></lb>
of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great-Britain,<lb></lb>
France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1853-1">Thomas Prickard</rs>
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, Gentleman,<lb></lb>
Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of <lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1853-2">Margaret Reeves</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1853-99">James<lb></lb>
Nicolson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1853-3">Joseph Richards</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1853-4">Clement Eadys</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1853-77">William Bourdillon</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1853-5">William<lb></lb>
Mumby</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1853-6">Henry Hunt</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1853-7">John Osborn</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1853-8">Charles Brunsden</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1853-66">John Hamshaw</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1853-55">Joseph Balaam</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1853-9">Alexander Morrison</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1853-10">William Williams</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1853-11">Nicholas<lb></lb>
Phillipson</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1853-12">Richard Ash</rs>
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good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly<lb></lb>
chosen, who being then and there duly sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the<lb></lb>
King, when, how, and by what Means the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1853-13">Margaret Reeves</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
h er Death, do upon their Oath say , That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1853-14">Margaret Reeves</rs>
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, not being of<lb></lb>
sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted, on<lb></lb>
the Twenty sixth day of November in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish and<lb></lb>
in the Liberty and County aforesaid, one End of a certain piece of small<lb></lb>
Cord unto an Iron Stable fastened into the Ceiling in a Closet adjoining<lb></lb>
to the Kitchen in the dwelling House of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1853-15">Charles Marsh</rs>
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situate and<lb></lb>
being in the said Parish Liberty and County, and the other End thereof<lb></lb>
about her own Neck, did fix tye and fasten, and therewith did then<lb></lb>
and there Hang, Suffocate, and Strangle herself, of which said Hanging<lb></lb>
Suffocation and Strangling; she the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1853-16">Margaret Reeves</rs>
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then and <lb></lb>
there died, And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do<lb></lb>
say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1853-17">Margaret Reeves</rs>
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, not being of sound Mind Memory<lb></lb>
and Understanding, but lunatic and distracted, in Manner and by<lb></lb>
the Means aforesaid, did Kill herself. In Witness whereof as<lb></lb>
well the said Coroner, as the said James Nicolson Foreman of the said<lb></lb>
Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows, in their<lb></lb>
presence have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals, the Day<lb></lb>
Year and Place first above written.</p>
<p n="1854"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1854-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65211_occ462">Coroner</rs>
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<p n="1855"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1855-47">James Nicolson</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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