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<p n="273"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo314">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo315">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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.}<lb></lb>
to wit.</note>
<lb></lb>
An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King at the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo316">Saint Ann</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="WACWIC65226_geo317">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo318">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the Thirty first day of January in the Twenty sixth<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="WACWIC65226_n273-1">Thomas<lb></lb>
Prickard</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65226_occ224">Gentleman, 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="WACWIC65226_n273-2">Elizabeth Collins</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon<lb></lb>
the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n273-3">Joseph Davies</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n273-4">John Billing</rs>
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, Samuel Hopton John Glazer,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n273-5">Samuel Palmer</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n273-6">Edward Burridge</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n273-7">John Swan</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n273-8">John Ashlen</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n273-9">Joseph Willson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n273-10">William Seekins</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n273-11">James Thomas</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n273-449">Phillips Dimes</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n273-12">John Brown</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n273-13">Hugh<lb></lb>
Ramsey</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n273-14">Michael Clark</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 that Means the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n273-15">Elizabeth Collins</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n273-16">Elizabeth Collins</rs>
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not being<lb></lb>
of sound Mind Memory and Understanding but lunatick and<lb></lb>
distracted on the Thirteenth day of January in the Year aforesaid,<lb></lb>
at the said Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo319">Saint Ann</rs>
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within the Liberty and County<lb></lb>
aforesaid, with a certain Pen knife made of Iron and Steel which<lb></lb>
She the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n273-17">Elizabeth Collins</rs>
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then and there had and held in her<lb></lb>
right Hand, the Throat on Gullet of her the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n273-18">Elizabeth Collins</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
did then and there strike Stab and penetrate, thereby then and there<lb></lb>
giving unto herself with the knife aforesaid, in and upon the Throat<lb></lb>
or Gullet of her the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n273-19">Elizabeth Collins</rs>
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One Mortal Wound of the<lb></lb>
length of three Inches and of the Depth of One Inch of which said<lb></lb>
Mortal Wound she the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n273-20">Elizabeth Collins</rs>
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then and there<lb></lb>
instantly died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath<lb></lb>
aforesaid, do say, that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n273-21">Elizabeth Collins</rs>
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not being of<lb></lb>
sound Mind Memory and Understanding but <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65226_occ225">Lunatick</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
distracted, in manner and by the Means aforesaid, did kill<lb></lb>
herself.In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n273-22">Joseph Davies</rs>
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Foreman of the said Jurors on the behalf of <lb></lb>
himself and the rest of his Fellows in their Presence, have to this<lb></lb>
Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day year and Place<lb></lb>
abovementioned</p>
<p n="274"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n274-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65226_occ226">Coroner</rs>
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<p n="275"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n275-1">Joseph Davies</rs>
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