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of Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo1966">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 House of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n1764-1">Joseph Maberley</rs>
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the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo1967">Sign of the Bell</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo1968">New Tothill Street</rs>
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of Saint Margaret</rs>
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within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo1970">Collegiate Church<lb></lb>
of St. Peter, Westminster</rs>
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, in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo1971">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the Seventh day of August 1797<lb></lb>
in the thirty Seventh Year of the Reign on our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third,<lb></lb>
by the Grace of God, of Great - Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith,<lb></lb>
and So forth, before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n1764-2">Anthony Gell</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65237_occ929">Esq.</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65237_occ930">Coroner</rs>
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of our Said Lord the King for the Said City<lb></lb>
and Liberty, on View of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n1764-4">Edith</rs>
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the <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65237_occ931">Wife</rs>
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of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n1764-3">George Pepper</rs>
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then and there<lb></lb>
lying dead, upon the Oath of the Several Jurors whose Names one hereunder written, and<lb></lb>
Seals affixed, good and lawful Men of the Said Liberty, duly chosen, who being then and<lb></lb>
there duly Sworn and charged to enquire our Said Lord the King, when, how, and by<lb></lb>
what Means the said Edith Pepper came to h er Death, do upon<lb></lb>
their Oath Say that the said Edith Pepper not being of sound Mind<lb></lb>
Memory and Understanding but lunatic and distracted on the<lb></lb>
Sixth day of August in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and<lb></lb>
in the Liberty aforesaid one end of a certain Piece of smll Cord<lb></lb>
unto the Iron Rod of the Bed of her the said Edith Pepper<lb></lb>
and the Other end thereof about her own Neck did fix tye<lb></lb>
and fasten & therewith did then and there hang Suffocate Suffocated<lb></lb>
and strangle herself: of which said hanging Suffocation<lb></lb>
and strangling the the said Edith Pepper then &<lb></lb>
there instantly died. And so the Jurors aforesaid<lb></lb>
upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said<lb></lb>
Edith Pepper not being of sound Mind Memory<lb></lb>
and Understanding but lunatic and distracted in<lb></lb>
manner by the Means aforesaid, did kill herself<lb></lb>
IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Jurors, have to this Inquisition<lb></lb>
set their Hands and Seals the Day, Year, and Place first above written. </p>
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Cooper</p>
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S. Champnes<lb></lb>
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