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<p n="1626"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo1797">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo1798">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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to wit.</note>
<lb></lb>
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_geo1799">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo1800">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the Twenty third day of September 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_n1626-1">Thomas<lb></lb>
Prickard</rs>
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, Gentleman, 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_n1626-2">Thomas Thomlinson</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon<lb></lb>
the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n1626-3">Humphrey Fifield</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n1626-4">Thomas Hardy</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n1626-5">Thomas Nigh</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n1626-6">James Turner</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n1626-7">Joseph Moore</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n1626-8">James Gray</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n1626-9">Thomas Andrews</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n1626-23">John Wilkey</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n1626-10">Thomas Crippin</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n1626-24">John Farguson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n1626-11">Moses<lb></lb>
Blanchard</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n1626-12">Daniel Fenton</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n1626-13">William Mercer</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n1626-14">William<lb></lb>
Papell</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n1626-15">John Farquharson</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_n1626-16">Thomas Thomlinson</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
his. Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n1626-17">Thomas Thomlinson</rs>
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<lb></lb>
not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding but lunatick<lb></lb>
and distracted on the said Twenty third day of September in the Year<lb></lb>
aforesaid, one End of a certain piece of small Cord unto a Pair<lb></lb>
of Scissars fastened into the Wainscot over the Door in the<lb></lb>
Lodging Room or Apartment of him the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n1626-18">Thomas Thomlinson</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the Dwelling House of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n1626-19">Elizabeth Sparkes</rs>
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situate<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County arround<lb></lb>
and the other End thereof about his own Neck did fix his 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>
Stranghing he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n1626-20">Thomas Thomlinson</rs>
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then and there<lb></lb>
died, and so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid<lb></lb>
do say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n1626-21">Thomas Thomlinson</rs>
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not being of sound<lb></lb>
Mind 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 said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n1626-22">Humphrey Fifield</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65224_occ1075">Foreman</rs>
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of the said Jurors, on the behalf<lb></lb>
of himself and the rest of his Fellows, in their presence, have to<lb></lb>
this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day Year<lb></lb>
and Place abovewritten</p>
<p n="1627"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n1627-1">Tho Prickard</rs>
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</p>
<p n="1628">Humphy Fifield Foreman</p>
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