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<p n="1418"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65218_geo1572">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65218_geo1573">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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}<lb></lb>
to wit </note>
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<p n="1419"> An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King, at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65218_geo1574">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="WACWIC65218_geo1575">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65218_geo1576">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the Seventh day of December in the Nineteenth 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_n1419-1">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_n1419-2">Elizabeth Brook</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1419-3">Robert<lb></lb>
Watson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1419-4">William Pilmore</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1419-5">Thomas Hook</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1419-6">James Lloyd</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1419-7">John Tomlinson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1419-8">George<lb></lb>
Dawson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1419-9">William Miles</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1419-10">Abraham Apleton</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1419-11">Benjamin Thomas</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1419-20">Harry<lb></lb>
Lender</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1419-12">William Potter</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1419-13">James Lloyd</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_n1419-14">Elizabeth Brook</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1419-15">Elizabeth Brook</rs>
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not being<lb></lb>
of sound Mind Memory and Understanding but lunatick<lb></lb>
and distracted, on the Sixth day of December in the Year<lb></lb>
aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty and County<lb></lb>
aforesaid, one End of a certain piece of Small Cord unto the Key<lb></lb>
in the Lock of the Doors of the Lodging Room or Apartment<lb></lb>
of her the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1419-16">Elizabeth Brook</rs>
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in the Dwelling House of<lb></lb>
Sarah Dunbabin situate in Peter Street in the said Parish<lb></lb>
Liberty and County and the other End thereof about her<lb></lb>
own Neck did fix tye and fasten, and therewith did then and<lb></lb>
there hang suffocate and Strangle herself, of which said<lb></lb>
Hanging Suffocation and Strangling she the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1419-17">Elizabeth<lb></lb>
Brook</rs>
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then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid<lb></lb>
upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1419-18">Elizabeth Brook</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 aforesaid<lb></lb>
did kill herself. In Witness whereof as well the said<lb></lb>
Coroner, as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1419-19">Robert Watson</rs>
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Foreman of the said<lb></lb>
Jurors, 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 abovementioned.</p>
<p n="1420"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1420-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65218_occ451">Coroner</rs>
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<p n="1421"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1421-1">Robt Watson</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Foreman<figure rend="mark"></figure>
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