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<p n="1319"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo1323">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo1324">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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. }<lb></lb>
to wit.</note>
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An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King, at the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo1325">Saint John the Evangelist</rs>
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within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo1326">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo1327">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65214_date264">Thirteenth day of October</rs>
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in the Fourteenth 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="WACWIC65214_n1319-1">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="WACWIC65214_n1319-2">Sarah Reeves</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n1319-3">Henry Harrison</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n1319-4">John Fountain</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n1319-5">James Saunders</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n1319-6">Charles Keither</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n1319-7">George Mills</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n1319-26">William Oare</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n1319-8">John Taylor</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n1319-27">Harry<lb></lb>
Lowder</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n1319-9">Alexander Smelle</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n1319-45">James Beamount</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n1319-10">John Heath</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n1319-25">Edward Wiggins</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="WACWIC65214_n1319-11">Sarah Reeves</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n1319-12">Sarah Reeves</rs>
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on the Twelfth day of<lb></lb>
October in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the LIberty and County aforesaid, and being of<lb></lb>
Sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but Lunatic and Distracted, one end of a certain piece of Ribband<lb></lb>
about the Tester Rail of her Bed in her Apartment or Dwelling in a House situate in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo1328">Wood Street</rs>
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, and<lb></lb>
the other and thereof about her own Neck did fix tye and fasten and therewith did then and there<lb></lb>
Hang Suffocate and Strangle herself, of which said Hanging Suffocation and Strangling she the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n1319-13">Sarah Reeves</rs>
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then and there instantly Died. And so the Jurors aforesaid<obscured></obscured>
their Oath<lb></lb>
aforesaid do say that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n1319-14">Sarah Reeves</rs>
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not being of Sound Mind Memory and Understanding<lb></lb>
but Lunatic and Distracted in manner and by the means aforesaid did Kill herself. In Witness<lb></lb>
whereof as well the said Corner as the Foreman of the Jurors aforesaid on behalf of himself<lb></lb>
and the rest of the said Jurors have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day Year<lb></lb>
and at the Place abovementioned.</p>
<p n="1320"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n1320-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65214_occ420">Coroner</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n1320-2">Henry Harrison</rs>
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foreman</p>
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