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<p n="1838"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1441">Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1442">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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}<lb></lb>
to wit.</note>
<lb></lb>
An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King, at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1443">Parish of St. John the Evangelist</rs>
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<lb></lb>
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1444">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1445">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the Sixteenth day of September in the Thirteenth 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="WACWIC65213_n1838-1">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="WACWIC65213_n1838-2">William Mackreth</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1838-3">William<lb></lb>
Fletcher</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1838-4">William Stratford</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1838-5">Wright Burdett</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1838-6">John Williams</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1838-7">Robert Clarke</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1838-8">Thomas Greenaway</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1838-9">William Ginger</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1838-10">Thomas Fisher</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1838-11">John Waker</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1838-12">Timothy Carter</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1838-13">John Whitehead</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1838-47">William Heare</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1838-14">John Fell</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1838-15">William Life</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1838-16">Paul Wilson</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="WACWIC65213_n1838-17">William Mackreth</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
h Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1838-18">William Mackreth</rs>
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, not being of<lb></lb>
sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted,<lb></lb>
on the said Sixteenth day of September in the Year aforesaid, one End<lb></lb>
of a certain piece of Small Cord unto an Iron Hook fastened into a<lb></lb>
Wooden Beam in the Kitchen of the dwelling House of the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1838-19">William Mackreth</rs>
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situate and being in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1446">Mill Bank Street</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, and the<lb></lb>
other End thereof about his own Neck did fix tye and fasten, and<lb></lb>
therewith did then and there hang suffocate and strangle himself<lb></lb>
of which said Hanging Suffocation and Strangling he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1838-20">William<lb></lb>
Mackreth</rs>
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then and there died, And so the Jurors aforesaid upon<lb></lb>
their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said William Mickreth, not<lb></lb>
being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and<lb></lb>
distracted, in Manner and by the Means aforesaid, did hill himself.<lb></lb>
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1838-21">William<lb></lb>
Fletcher</rs>
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Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and<lb></lb>
the rest of his Fellows, in their presence, have to this Inquisition<lb></lb>
set their Hands and Seals, the Day Year and Place first above written</p>
<p n="1839"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1839-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65213_occ434">Coroner</rs>
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</p>
<p n="1840"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1840-26">Wm. Fletcher</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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