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<p n="713"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo740">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo741">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 Saint Martin in the Fields<lb></lb>
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo742">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo743">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the Twenty seventh day of April 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_n713-1">Thomas<lb></lb>
Prickard</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65224_occ494">Gentleman</rs>
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, Coroner 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_n713-2">Elizabeth Phillips</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon<lb></lb>
the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n713-3">Richard Holloway</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n713-4">Richard Martin</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n713-5">Alexander Brooks</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n713-6">Timothy Mutch</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n713-7">Henry Chapman</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n713-8">Joseph Turner</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n713-9">Joseph<lb></lb>
Lander</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n713-10">Peter Hay</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n713-11">Thomas Skellern</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n713-12">William Wilson</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n713-13">William Ferguson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n713-14">Thomas Thomas</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n713-25">James Frazier</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n713-15">Alexander<lb></lb>
Copeland</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n713-16">Charles Buer</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_n713-17">Elizabeth Phillips</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n713-18">Elizabeth Phillips</rs>
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, not<lb></lb>
being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding but lunatick and<lb></lb>
distracted on the Twenty sixth day of April in the Year aforesaid<lb></lb>
at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid, with<lb></lb>
or certain Knife made of Iron and Steel which she the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n713-19">Elizabeth Phillips</rs>
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then and there had and held in her Right Hand<lb></lb>
the Throat or Gullet of her the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n713-20">Elizabeth Phillips</rs>
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did then<lb></lb>
and there strike stab and penetrate, thereby then and there<lb></lb>
giving unto herself with the Knife aforesaid in and upon<lb></lb>
the Throat or Gullet of her the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n713-21">Elizabeth Phillips</rs>
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one Mortal<lb></lb>
Wound of the Length of three Inches and of the Depth of one<lb></lb>
Inch, of which said Mortal Wound she the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n713-22">Elizabeth Phillips</rs>
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<lb></lb>
then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their<lb></lb>
Oath aforesaid do say, that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n713-23">Elizabeth Phillips</rs>
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not being<lb></lb>
of sound Mind Memory and Understanding but lunatick and<lb></lb>
distracted, in Manner and by the Means aforesaid, did kill<lb></lb>
herself. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner<lb></lb>
as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n713-24">Richard Holloway</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65224_occ495">Foreman</rs>
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of the said Jurors<lb></lb>
on the behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows, in<lb></lb>
their presence, have to this Inquisition set their<lb></lb>
Hands and Seals the Day Year and Place abovewritten.</p>
<p n="714"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n714-1">Tho Prickard</rs>
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<p n="715"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n715-1">Richard Holloway</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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