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<p n="1645"> <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65212_date311">25th, July 1772</rs>
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<p n="1646">Verdict of the Jury touching the Death of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1646-1">Ann Nicholson</rs>
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<p n="1647">That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1647-1">Ann Nicholson</rs>
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on the 24th, day of July 1772, not being of<lb></lb>
Sound Mind Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and Distracted one end<lb></lb>
of a certain peice of Cord fastened to a Staple in the Ceiling of the two<lb></lb>
pair of Stairs fore Room in the Dwelling House of W, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1647-2">James Nicholson</rs>
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her<lb></lb>
Husband in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo1395">Piccadilly</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo1396">Parish of St. James in the Liberty of Westmr</rs>
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and the other and of the said peice of Lord about her own Neck did lye<lb></lb>
fix and faster and therewith did then and there hang suffocate and<lb></lb>
strangle herself of which she the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1647-3">Ann Nicholson</rs>
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then and there<lb></lb>
instantly Died. And so the Jurors on thin Oath say that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1647-4">Ann<lb></lb>
Nicholson</rs>
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being Lunatick and Distracted in manner and by the means<lb></lb>
aforesaid did Kill herself. In Witness whereof the Foreman of the<lb></lb>
said Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of the Jurors<del>have has</del>
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hereunto Let his hand this 25th, day of July 1772.</p>
<p n="1648"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1648-55">Jno: Cowper</rs>
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