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An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London<lb></lb>
(that is to say) at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo1113">Precinct of Saint Ann Blackfriars</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo1114">Ward of Farringdon</rs>
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without in<lb></lb>
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aforesaid on the <rs type="date" id="LMCLIC65010_date94">first day of September in the thirty seventh year of the reign<lb></lb>
of our Sovereign Lord George the third King of Great Britain and so forth</rs>
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before <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1204-26">Thomas<lb></lb>
Shelton</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65010_occ549">Coroner</rs>
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of our said Lord the King for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo1116">City of London</rs>
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and Borough<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo1117">Southwark</rs>
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on view of the body of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1204-3">William Ball</rs>
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now here lying dead by the oath<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1204-4">Thomas Rodbard</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1204-5">William Waterhouse</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1204-6">Henry Smith</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1204-7">Charles Child</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1204-24">Richard<lb></lb>
Frances</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1204-8">James Russell</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1204-9">William Pritchard</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1204-10">Samuel Naish</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1204-11">Charles Moody</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1204-12">George<lb></lb>
Hawkes,</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1204-25">Walter Newbon</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1204-13">James Taylor</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1204-14">Robert Carrick</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1204-15">John Biggs</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1204-16">John Mosher</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1204-17">William<lb></lb>
Simmons,</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1204-18">James Freeman</rs>
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, good and lawful men of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo1118">City of London</rs>
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aforesaid<lb></lb>
who being now here duly chosen sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord<lb></lb>
the King when how and in what manner the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1204-19">William Ball</rs>
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came to his death<lb></lb>
say upon their Oath that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1204-20">William Ball</rs>
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not being of sound mind memory<lb></lb>
and understanding but lunatic and distracted on the thirty first day of August in<lb></lb>
the year aforesaid one end of a certain Cord unto and about the top of a certain Ladder<lb></lb>
Standing and being in a certain chaise house there situate and the other end of the said<lb></lb>
piece of Cord round and about his own neck did then and there fix tye and fasten<lb></lb>
by means whereof the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1204-21">William Ball</rs>
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did then and there hang strangle and<lb></lb>
suffocate himself of which said hanging strangling and suffocation the said William<lb></lb>
Ball did then and there die-And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say<lb></lb>
that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1204-22">William Ball</rs>
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not being of sound mind memory and understanding but<lb></lb>
lunatic and distracted did hang and kill himself In Witness whereof as well the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65010_occ550">Coroner</rs>
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as the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1204-23">Thomas Rodbard</rs>
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the foreman of the said Jurors on behalf of himself<lb></lb>
and the rest of his fellows in their presence have to this Inquisition set their hands and<lb></lb>
seals the day year and place first abovewritten</p>
<p n="1205"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1205-1">Thos Rodbard</rs>
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