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City and Liberty
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of
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in the
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to wit.
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An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
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King, at the Parish of Saint James
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within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter,
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Westminster
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in the
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, the Twelfth day of October in the Eighteenth 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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Thomas Prickard
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, Gentleman,
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Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of
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Charles Chapman
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
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Alexander
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Mackintosh
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Sommerville Macquire
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John Gray
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John Fisher
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Joh Bruce
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Benjamin Burges
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Henry Kirby
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John Smith
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Samuel Dagley
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Joseph
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Jefford
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,
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Thomas Sundill
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,
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James Solirol
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William Billing
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Thomas Jones
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John
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Lockwood
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Thomas Wilding
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and
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James Irwyn
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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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Charles Chapman
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came to
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his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said
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Charles Chapman
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, not
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being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding but lunatick
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and distracted, on the Twelfth day of October in the Year
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aforesaid at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and
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County aforesaid, one End of a certain Piece of Small Cord
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unto an Iron Hook fastened into the Wainscot in the Lodging-
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-room or Apartment of him the said
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Charles Chapman
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in the Dwelling House of
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Ralph Hall
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situate in great
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Windmill Street
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in the said Parish Liberty and County, and
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the other End thereof about his own Neck, did fix tye and
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fasten, and therewith did then and there hang suffocate and
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strangle himself, of which said Hanging Suffocation and
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Strangling he the said
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Charles Chapman
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, then and there died.
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that the said
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, not being of sound Mind
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Memory and Understanding but lunatick and distracted
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in Manner and by the Means aforesaid did kill himself.
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In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the
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Alexander Mackintosh
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Foreman of the said Jurors,
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on the behalf of himself and the rest of his said Fellows,
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in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands
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and Seals the Day Year and Place abovewritten
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Alex Mackintosh
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