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<p n="1984"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65211_geo1521">Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65211_geo1522">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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}<lb></lb>
to wit.</note>
<lb></lb>
An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King, at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65211_geo1523">Parish of St. Martin in the Fields</rs>
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<lb></lb>
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65211_geo1524">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65211_geo1525">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65211_date422">Twentieth day of December</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_n1984-1">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_n1984-2">Nicholas Merry</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1984-3">James<lb></lb>
Thomas</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1984-4">Thomas Simmonds</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1984-5">Robert Walker</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1984-6">Christopher Lewis</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1984-7">Samuel Hoult</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1984-8">James<lb></lb>
Fitz Patrick</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1984-9">Thomas Jefferson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1984-10">John Lester</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1984-55">John Eichhorn</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1984-44">Francis Reiginer</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1984-11">John<lb></lb>
Wall</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1984-12">Samuel Jackman</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1984-13">John Wilson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1984-14">Henry Fisher</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1984-15">John Robinson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1984-16">Job<lb></lb>
Fidsbury</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1984-17">John Olive</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1984-18">William Bayliff</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_n1984-19">Nicholas Merry</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1984-20">Nicholas Merry</rs>
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, not being of sound <lb></lb>
Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted, on the<lb></lb>
Twentieth day of December in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish and in<lb></lb>
the Liberty and County aforesaid, in the dwelling house of him the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1984-21">Nicholas Merry</rs>
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there situate, with a certain Razor made of<lb></lb>
Iron and Steel, which he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1984-22">Nicholas Merry</rs>
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then and there<lb></lb>
had and held in his Right Hand, the Throat or Gullet of him the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1984-23">Nicholas Merry</rs>
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, did then and there strike stab and penetrate, thereby<lb></lb>
then and there giving unto himself the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1984-24">Nicholas Merry</rs>
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, with the<lb></lb>
Razor aforesaid, in and upon the Throat or Gullet of him the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1984-25">Nicholas<lb></lb>
Merry</rs>
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one mortal Wound of the length of three Inches and of the depth of<lb></lb>
one Inch, of which said mortal Wound he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1984-26">Nicholas Merry</rs>
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then<lb></lb>
and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid, do<lb></lb>
say, that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1984-27">Nicholas Merry</rs>
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, not being of sound Mind Memory and<lb></lb>
Understanding, but lunatick and distracted, in Manner and by the<lb></lb>
Means aforesaid, did hill himself. In Witness whereof as well the<lb></lb>
said Coroner, as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1984-28">James Thomas</rs>
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Foreman of the said Jurors, on<lb></lb>
the behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows, in their presence, have to<lb></lb>
this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals, the Day Year and Place first<lb></lb>
above written</p>
<p n="1985"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1985-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65211_occ498">Coroner</rs>
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</p>
<p n="1986"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1986-45">Jas. Thomas</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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