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<p n="188"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo235">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo236">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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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="WACWIC65224_geo237">Saint George Hanover Square</rs>
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within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo238">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo239">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the Seventeenth day of January in the twenty fourth<lb></lb>
Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, of<lb></lb>
Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n188-1">Thomas<lb></lb>
Prickard</rs>
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, Gentleman, <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65224_occ141">Coroner</rs>
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of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on<lb></lb>
View of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n188-2">Robert Blyth</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon<lb></lb>
the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n188-3">Simon Leife</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n188-4">William White</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n188-5">Henry Jones</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n188-6">Robert Fagg</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n188-20">Francis Perrigale</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n188-7">George Watson</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n188-21">Samuel Sandells</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n188-8">John Bunting</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n188-9">George Reynolds</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n188-10">Benjamin Laver</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n188-11">Robert Hair</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n188-12">William<lb></lb>
Griffin</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="WACWIC65224_n188-13">Robert Blyth</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n188-14">Robert Blyth</rs>
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not being<lb></lb>
of sound Mind Memory and Understanding but lunatick and<lb></lb>
distracted on the said Seventh day of January in the Year<lb></lb>
aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty and County<lb></lb>
aforesaid, with a certain Razor made of Iron and Steel which he<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n188-15">Robert Blyth</rs>
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then and there had and held in his<lb></lb>
Right Hand, in and upon the left Arm of him the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n188-16">Robert Blyth</rs>
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did then and there strike stab and penetrate<lb></lb>
thereby then and there giving unto himself with the Rogor<lb></lb>
aforesaid in and upon the said left Arm divers Mortal<lb></lb>
Wounds, of which said Mortal Wounds he the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n188-17">Robert Blyth</rs>
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then and there instantly died. And so<lb></lb>
the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say<lb></lb>
that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n188-18">Robert Blyth</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="WACWIC65224_n188-19">Simon Leife</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65224_occ142">Foreman</rs>
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of the said Jurors on the<lb></lb>
behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows in their<lb></lb>
presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and<lb></lb>
Seals the Day Year and Place first abovewritten</p>
<p n="189"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n189-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<p n="190">Simon Leife<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Foreman</p>
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