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An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London<lb></lb>
that is to say at the Parish of Saint Bennett Finch in the Ward of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65004_geo484">Broad Street</rs>
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on London aforesaid<lb></lb>
on the <rs type="date" id="LMCLIC65004_date32">twenty eighth day of March</rs>
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in the thirty four Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George<lb></lb>
the third 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="LMCLIC65004_n503-3">Thomas Shelton</rs>
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for our said Lord the King for the City<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65004_geo485">London</rs>
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and Borough of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65004_geo486">Southwark</rs>
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on View of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65004_n503-4">Joseph Stewardson</rs>
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now<lb></lb>
here lying dead by the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65004_n503-5">John Sommers</rs>
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Edward <lb></lb>
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John <lb></lb>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65004_n503-17">Francis<lb></lb>
Tolit</rs>
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good and lawful men of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65004_geo487">City of London</rs>
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who being new here duly chosen sworn<lb></lb>
and charged to inquire for our Lord the King when how and in what manner the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65004_n503-18">Joseph Stewardson</rs>
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same to his death say upon their Oath that the said Joseph<lb></lb>
Stewardson on the twenty sixth day of March in the Thirty First year aforesaid at the Parish<lb></lb>
and Ward aforesaid in <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65004_geo488">London</rs>
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aforesaid one end of a ceratin Piece of Cord of no value unto and about<lb></lb>
the tester of a certain bedstead in a certain room in the dwelling house of him the said Joseph<lb></lb>
Stewardson there situate and the other end of the said piece of Cord unto round and about his own<lb></lb>
Neck did then and there fix tie and fasten by means whereof he the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65004_n503-21">Joseph Stewardson</rs>
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did<lb></lb>
then and there hang strangle and suffocate himself of which said hanging strangling and suffocation<lb></lb>
he the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65004_n503-22">John Stewardson</rs>
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did then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath<lb></lb>
aforesaid do say that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65004_n503-23">Joseph Stewardson</rs>
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not being of sound mind memory and understanding<lb></lb>
but lunatic and distracted in manner and by the means aforesaid did hang and hill himself.<lb></lb>
In Witness a hereof as well the said Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65004_n503-24">John Summers</rs>
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the foreman of the said Jurors on behalf of<lb></lb>
himself and the rest of his follows in their presence have to this Inquisition set their hands and seals the day Year <lb></lb>
and place first above written.</p>
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