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<p n="2172"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo1849">Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo1850">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_geo1851">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_geo1852">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65212_date432">Twentyfirst day of September</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_n2172-1">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_n2172-2">Mary Filewood</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n2172-3">Francis Johnston</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n2172-88">Constantine Taulings</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n2172-4">John Cockerell</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n2172-5">Richard Edwards</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n2172-6">William Dutton Townsend</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n2172-66">Robert Norne</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n2172-7">Samuel Freeman</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n2172-8">Henry Whelan</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n2172-9">Thomas Newbery</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n2172-10">William Snow</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n2172-11">William Painter</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n2172-12">William Caddick</rs>
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, <lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n2172-13">John Forster</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n2172-14">William Scarborough</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_n2172-15">Mary Filewood</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n2172-16">Mary Filewood</rs>
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, not being of sound<lb></lb>
Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted, on the said<lb></lb>
Twenty first day of September in the Year aforesaid, one End of a certain piece of<lb></lb>
small Cord unto the Iron Curtain Rod at the feet of the Bed in the Bedchamber<lb></lb>
of her the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n2172-17">Mary Filewood</rs>
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in the Dwelling House of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n2172-18">James Filewood</rs>
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, situate<lb></lb>
and being in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo1853">Piccadilly</rs>
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in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County<lb></lb>
aforesaid, and the other End thereof about her own Neck, did fix tye and fasten, and<lb></lb>
therewith did then and there hang suffocate and strangle herself, of which<lb></lb>
said Hanging Suffocation and Strangling she the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n2172-19">Mary Filewood</rs>
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then and<lb></lb>
there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n2172-20">Mary Filewood</rs>
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, not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatic<lb></lb>
and distracted, in Manner and by the Means aforesaid, did hill herself<lb></lb>
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said Francis Johnston<lb></lb>
Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows,<lb></lb>
in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals, the Day<lb></lb>
Year and Place first above written</p>
<p n="2173"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n2173-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65212_occ595">Coroner</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Francis Johnston<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Foreman</p>
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