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An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign, Lord the
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Twenty fourth day of July
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in the Thirteenth Year
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of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great-Britain,
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France and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before
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, Gentleman,
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John Dodson
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
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Daniel Hancock
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James Erwin
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Robert Martin
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William Cade
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James Duckett
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Daniel Keep
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James Jones
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William Clemmants
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Daniel Luckhurst
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William
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Hide
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William Carr
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good and lawful Men of the said Liberty. duly
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chosen, who being then and there duly sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the
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King, when, how, and by what Means the said
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John Dodson
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came to
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h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said
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John Dodson
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not being of Sound Mind
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Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and Distracted on the Twenty third day of July in the Year aforesaid
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at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid, one end of a certain peice of Cord unto the Feaster
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Lath of his Bed in the Apartment of him the said
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John Dodson
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in the Dwelling House of Mr. David Burnsall
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his Master Situate and being in
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Berkeley Square in the Said Parish Liberty and County, and
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the other end thereof about his own Neck did fix tye and fasten, and therewith did then and there hang
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Suffocate and Strangle himself of which said Hanging suffocation and Strangling he the said
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John Dodson
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then and there Died. And to the Jurors aforesaid upon the Oath aforesaid do say, that the said
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John
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not being of Sound Mind Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and Distracted in manner and
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by the Means aforesaid did Kill himself. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the Foreman
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of the Jurors aforesaid on behalf of himself and the rest of the said Jurors have to this Inquisition set
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their Hands and Seals the Day Year and at the Place above mentioned.
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