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<p n="776"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo650">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo651">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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to wit.</note>
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An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King, at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo652">Parish of St. George Hanover Square</rs>
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within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo653">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo654">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65212_date137">Twenty seventh day of April</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="WACWIC65212_n776-1">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="WACWIC65212_n776-2">Elizabeth Hughes</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n776-3">James<lb></lb>
Stephens</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n776-4">John Edmondson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n776-5">James Nicholson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n776-6">William Perkins</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n776-7">Hugh Munshall</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n776-8">James Bretherton</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n776-495">James Gilron</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n776-9">Enoch Hodgkinson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n776-10">Richard Taylor</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n776-11">Mark<lb></lb>
Gibbs</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n776-12">Thomas Mason</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n776-13">William Hawkins</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n776-14">Richard Peachey</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n776-15">Richard<lb></lb>
Jacobs</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n776-16">Thomas Booker</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="WACWIC65212_n776-17">Elizabeth Hughes</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
h er Death, do upon their Oath say , That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n776-18">Elizabeth Hughes</rs>
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, not being of sound<lb></lb>
Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted, on the Twenty seventh<lb></lb>
day of April in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty<lb></lb>
and County aforesaid, one End of a certain piece of small Cord unto one of the<lb></lb>
Banisters of the Kitchen Stairs in the dwelling House of Lady <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n776-45">Ann Cecil</rs>
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situate<lb></lb>
and 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 there with did then and there<lb></lb>
hang suffocate and Strangle herself, of which said Hanging, Suffocation and<lb></lb>
Strangling she the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n776-19">Elizabeth Hughes</rs>
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then and there died. And so the Jurors<lb></lb>
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n776-20">Elizabeth Hughes</rs>
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, not<lb></lb>
being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted,<lb></lb>
in Manner and by the Means aforesaid, did kill herself. In Witness<lb></lb>
whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said James<obscured></obscured>
F<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself, and the rest of the Fellows, in<lb></lb>
their presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals, the Day<lb></lb>
Year and Place first above written</p>
<p n="777"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n777-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65212_occ219">Coroner</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n777-2">James Stephens</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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