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(to wit)</note>
An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London<lb></lb>
that is to say at the parish of Saint Sepulchre in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo438">Ward of Farringdon</rs>
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without in London<lb></lb>
aforesaid on the <rs type="date" id="LMCLIC65010_date42">twenty seventh day of April in the thirty seventh year of the reign of our<lb></lb>
Sovereign Lord George the third by the Grace of God of Great Britain</rs>
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France and<lb></lb>
Ireland King Defender of the faith and so forth before <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n468-3">Thomas Shelton</rs>
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of our said Lord the King for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo439">City of London</rs>
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and Borough of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo440">Southwark</rs>
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on view<lb></lb>
of the body of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n468-4">William Davis</rs>
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now here lying dead by the oath of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n468-5">William Birt</rs>
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Isaac Ward <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n468-10">John Purdon</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n468-12">Ralph Monk</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n468-13">John Yeates</rs>
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Puckridge <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n468-16">William Belcher</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n468-17">Robert Read</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65010_occ227">good</rs>
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and lawful men of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo441">City of London</rs>
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aforesaid who being<lb></lb>
now here duly chosen sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord the King<lb></lb>
when how and in what manner the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n468-19">William Davis</rs>
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came to his death say upon<lb></lb>
their oath that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n468-20">William Davis</rs>
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not being of sound mind memory and<lb></lb>
understanding but lunatic and distracted on the twenty sixth day of April in the<lb></lb>
<del>thirty seventh year of the reign of our <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n468-21">Sovereign Lord</rs>
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George the third King of Great<lb></lb>
Britain</del>
year aforesaid one end of a certain rope of no value unto and about a certain<lb></lb>
Iron spike nail fixed in the Joists of a certain room in the dwelling house of<lb></lb>
one there situate And the other end of the said rope round and<lb></lb>
about his own neck did then and there fix tye and fasten by means whereof<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n468-22">William Davis</rs>
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did then and there hang strangle and suffocate himself<lb></lb>
of which said hanging strangling and suffocation the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n468-23">William Davis</rs>
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did then<lb></lb>
and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say<lb></lb>
that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n468-24">William Davis</rs>
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not being of sound mind memory and understanding<lb></lb>
but lunatic and distracted did hang and kill himself. In Witness whereof as<lb></lb>
well the said Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n468-25">William Burt</rs>
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the <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65010_occ228">foreman</rs>
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of the said Jurors on<lb></lb>
behalf of 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 first above<lb></lb>
written.</p>
<p n="469"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n469-1">Wm Burt</rs>
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