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<p n="241"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65218_geo304">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65218_geo305">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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.}<lb></lb>
to wit. </note>
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<p n="242"> An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King, at The Parish of Saint George <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65218_geo306">Hanover Square</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="WACWIC65218_geo307">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65218_geo308">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the Sixth day of April in the Eighteenth 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="WACWIC65218_n242-1">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="WACWIC65218_n242-2">Sarah Winter</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n242-3">William<lb></lb>
Townsend</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n242-4">Thomas Legg</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n242-5">John Lewis</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n242-19">Samuel Battman</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n242-6">Thomas Haley</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n242-7">John<lb></lb>
Midland</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n242-8">Charles Bishop</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n242-9">John Wilson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n242-10">Barnard Marr</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n242-20">John Joison</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n242-11">Daniel<lb></lb>
Bergman</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n242-21">Joseph Old</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n242-12">Peter Henderson</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="WACWIC65218_n242-13">Sarah Winter</rs>
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came to <lb></lb>
her Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n242-14">Sarah Winter</rs>
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, Not being<lb></lb>
of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick<lb></lb>
and distracted, on the fourteenth day of March in the year<lb></lb>
aforesaid into a certain Baron in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65218_geo309">Hyde Park</rs>
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in the Parish<lb></lb>
aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, there did<lb></lb>
cast and throw herself, by means of which said Casting and<lb></lb>
Throwing she the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n242-15">Sarah Winter</rs>
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in the Water in the said<lb></lb>
Bason was then and there suffocated and Drowned, of which<lb></lb>
said Suffocation and Downing she the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n242-16">Sarah Winter</rs>
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<lb></lb>
then and there instantly died. And so the Jurors aforesaid<lb></lb>
upon their Oath aforesaid dy say that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n242-17">Sarah Winter</rs>
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<lb></lb>
not being of sound Mind Memory and understanding but<lb></lb>
lunatick and distracted, in Manner and by the Means<lb></lb>
aforesaid did kill and drown herself. In Witness whereof<lb></lb>
as well the said Coroner, as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n242-18">William Townsend</rs>
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Foreman<lb></lb>
of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his said<lb></lb>
fellows, in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their<lb></lb>
Hands and Seals the Day Year and Place abovementioned.</p>
<p n="243"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n243-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65218_occ70">Coroner</rs>
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</p>
<p n="244">Wm. Townsend Foreman</p>
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