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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 Bartholomew the less in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo805">Ward of Farringdon</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo806">without in London</rs>
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aforesaid on the <rs type="date" id="LMCLIC65012_date64">eighteenth day of June</rs>
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in the thirty ninth year<lb></lb>
of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third King of Great Britain and so<lb></lb>
forth before <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n809-2">Thomas Shelton</rs>
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of our said Lord the King for the City<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo807">London</rs>
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and Borough of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo808">Southwark</rs>
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on view of the body of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n809-3">Sarah Lewis</rs>
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now here<lb></lb>
lying dead by the oath of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n809-4">Thomas Snape</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n809-5">William Morss</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n809-6">John Yeates</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n809-99">Evan<lb></lb>
Lloyd</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n809-8">William John Brooks</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n809-9">Thomas Hill</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n809-10">James Dennison</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n809-11">John Camp</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n809-12">Thomas Whitaker</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n809-13">Samuel Brooks</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n809-14">Gerrard Willett</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n809-15">George Winterton</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n809-16">John Whale</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n809-17">Ebenezer Ashmore</rs>
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, good and lawful men of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo809">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="LMCLIC65012_n809-18">Sarah Lewis</rs>
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came to her death<lb></lb>
say upon their Oath that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n809-19">Sarah Lewis</rs>
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on the sixteenth day of June in the<lb></lb>
year aforesaid not being of sound mind memory and understanding but lunatic<lb></lb>
and distracted and being in a certain two pair of stairs room in the dwelling house<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n809-20">George Lewis</rs>
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situate in the Parish of Saint Luke in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo810">County of Middlesex</rs>
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did<lb></lb>
violently cast and throw herself from and out of a certain window of the said room<lb></lb>
down to and against the ground and stone pavement there by means whereof<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n809-21">Sarah Lewis</rs>
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did then and there receive one mortal wound in and upon<lb></lb>
her head of which said mortal wound she the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n809-22">Sarah Lewis</rs>
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as well at the<lb></lb>
said Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo811">Saint Luke</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo812">County of Middlesex</rs>
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as also at the abovementioned<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo813">Parish of Saint Bartholomew the less</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo814">Ward of Farringdon</rs>
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without in London<lb></lb>
aforesaid did languish and languishing did live and on the same day and year<lb></lb>
last aforesaid at the Parish last aforesaid in the Ward aforesaid in London aforesaid <lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n809-23">Sarah Lewis</rs>
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of the said mortal wound did die. and so the Jurors<lb></lb>
aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n809-24">Sarah Lewis</rs>
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not being<lb></lb>
of sound mind memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted in<lb></lb>
manner and by the means aforesaid did kill herself In Witness whereof as<lb></lb>
well the said Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n809-25">Thomas Snape</rs>
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the foreman of the said Jurors<lb></lb>
on behalf of himself and the rest of his fellows in their presence have to <lb></lb>
this Inquisition set their hands and seals the day year and place first<lb></lb>
abovewritten.</p>
<p n="810"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n810-1">Thomas Snape</rs>
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