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<p n="1239"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65218_geo1391">Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65218_geo1392">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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to wit.<lb></lb>
An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King, at the Parish of Saint James<lb></lb>
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65218_geo1393">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65218_geo1394">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the Twelfth day of October 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_n1239-1">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_n1239-2">Charles Chapman</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1239-3">Alexander<lb></lb>
Mackintosh</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1239-23">Sommerville Macquire</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1239-4">John Gray</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1239-5">John Fisher</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1239-6">Joh Bruce</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1239-7">Benjamin Burges</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1239-8">Henry Kirby</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1239-9">John Smith</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1239-10">Samuel Dagley</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1239-11">Joseph<lb></lb>
Jefford</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1239-24">Thomas Sundill</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1239-25">James Solirol</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1239-12">William Billing</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1239-13">Thomas Jones</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1239-14">John<lb></lb>
Lockwood</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1239-15">Thomas Wilding</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1239-26">James Irwyn</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_n1239-16">Charles Chapman</rs>
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came to <lb></lb>
his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1239-17">Charles Chapman</rs>
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, not<lb></lb>
being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding but lunatick<lb></lb>
and distracted, on the Twelfth day of October in the Year<lb></lb>
aforesaid at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and<lb></lb>
County aforesaid, one End of a certain Piece of Small Cord<lb></lb>
unto an Iron Hook fastened into the Wainscot in the Lodging-<lb></lb>
-room or Apartment of him the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1239-18">Charles Chapman</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the Dwelling House of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1239-19">Ralph Hall</rs>
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situate in great<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65218_geo1395">Windmill Street</rs>
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in the said Parish Liberty and County, and<lb></lb>
the other End thereof about his own Neck, did fix tye and<lb></lb>
fasten, and therewith did then and there hang suffocate and<lb></lb>
strangle himself, of which said Hanging Suffocation and<lb></lb>
Strangling he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1239-20">Charles Chapman</rs>
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, then and there died.<lb></lb>
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say<lb></lb>
that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1239-21">Charles Chapman</rs>
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, not being of sound Mind<lb></lb>
Memory and Understanding but lunatick and distracted<lb></lb>
in Manner and by the Means aforesaid did kill himself.<lb></lb>
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1239-22">Alexander Mackintosh</rs>
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Foreman of the said Jurors,<lb></lb>
on the behalf of himself and the rest of his said Fellows,<lb></lb>
in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands<lb></lb>
and Seals the Day Year and Place abovewritten</p>
<p n="1240"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1240-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65218_occ385">Coroner</rs>
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<p n="1241"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1241-1">Alex Mackintosh</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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