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<p n="1630"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo1381">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo1382">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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to wit.</note>
<lb></lb>
An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King, at the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo1383">Saint 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="WACWIC65212_geo1384">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65212_date307">Twenty fifth day of July</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_n1630-1">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_n1630-2">Ann Nicholson</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1630-3">John Cowper</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1630-88">John Totton</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1630-4">John Gwinn</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1630-5">John Child</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1630-6">William Trisby</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1630-7">John Miller</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1630-8">Samuel Pitt</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1630-9">James Hosier</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1630-47">Heel Legg</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1630-10">George Benson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1630-11">Joseph Crow</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1630-12">Thomas Fisher</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1630-13">George Lawrence</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1630-14">John Shirley</rs>
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, and<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1630-15">William Tomlinson</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_n1630-16">Ann Nicholson</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
h er Death, do upon their Oath say <lb></lb>
That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1630-17">Ann Nicholson</rs>
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not being of Sound Mind<lb></lb>
Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and Distracted on the Twenty fourth day of July in the Year aforesaid<lb></lb>
at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid one end of a certain piece of Cord unto an Iron Staple<lb></lb>
fastened into the Ceiling of the two pair of Stairs fore Room of the dwelling House of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1630-18">James Nicholson</rs>
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<lb></lb>
her Husband situate in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo1385">Piccadilly</rs>
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in the said Parish Liberty and County and the other end thereof about her<lb></lb>
own Neck did fix tye and fasten, and therewith did then and there hang Suffocate and strangle herself<lb></lb>
of which said Hanging, Suffocation and Strangling she the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1630-19">Ann Nicholson</rs>
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then and there Died.<lb></lb>
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1630-20">Ann Nicholson</rs>
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not being<lb></lb>
of Sound Mind Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and Distracted in manner and by the means<lb></lb>
aforesaid did Kill herself. In Witness whereof as Well the said Coroner as the Forenoon of the<lb></lb>
Jurors aforesaid on behalf of himself and the rest of the said Jurors have to this Inquisition set their<lb></lb>
Hands and Seals the Day Year and at the Place abovementioned.<lb></lb>
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<p n="1631"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1631-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65212_occ446">Coroner</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1631-2">John Cowper</rs>
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Foorman</p>
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