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<p n="1371"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">London</note>
An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo1417">London</rs>
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(that is to<lb></lb>
say) at the parish of Saint Bartholomew the less in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo1418">Ward of Farringdon</rs>
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without in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo1419">London</rs>
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aforesaid on the <rs type="date" id="LMCLIC65012_date105">fourth day of September</rs>
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in the thirty ninth year of the reign<lb></lb>
of our Sovereign Lord George the third King of Great Britain and so forth before Thomas<lb></lb>
Shelton Gentleman <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65012_occ415">Coroner</rs>
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of our said Lord the King for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo1420">City of London</rs>
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and Borough<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo1421">Southwark</rs>
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on view of the body of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1371-3">Mary Allen</rs>
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by now here lying dead by the<lb></lb>
oath of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1371-4">Edward Wright</rs>
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Whitcomb <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1371-5">Edmund Smith</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1371-6">Thomas Langford</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1371-7">Edward Smith</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1371-8">William King</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1371-9">Calob Ashman</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1371-10">George Finch</rs>
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Blades Pallister <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1371-11">Charles Phillips</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1371-12">William Skinner</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1371-13">James Ramsden</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1371-14">Philip Evans</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1371-15">Erasmus Jones</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1371-16">Charles Haskins</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1371-17">William Benson</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1371-18">John Summers</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1371-19">Richard Llewin</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1371-20">Thomas Blake</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1371-21">Thomas Ladd</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1371-22">George Shealey</rs>
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good and<lb></lb>
lawful men of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo1422">City of London</rs>
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aforesaid who being now here duly chosen Sworn and<lb></lb>
charged to inquire for our said Lord the King when how and in what manner the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1371-23">Mary Allenby</rs>
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came to her death say upon their oath that the said Mary<lb></lb>
Allenby not being of found mind memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted<lb></lb>
on the Second day of September in the year aforesaid at the parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo1423">Saint James Clerkenwell</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo1424">County of Middlesex</rs>
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with a certain large Knife of the value of six pence which She in her right hand<lb></lb>
had and held the neck and throat of herself the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1371-24">Mary Allenby</rs>
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with the <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65012_occ416">Knife</rs>
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aforesaid did then and there violently cut giving to herself the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1371-25">Mary Allenby</rs>
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with the Knife aforesaid one mortal wound in and upon the throat of her the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1371-26">Mary Allenby</rs>
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of which said mortal wound she the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1371-27">Mary Allenby</rs>
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on the said Second day of September in the year aforesaid as well at the said Parish<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo1425">Saint James Clerkenwell</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo1426">County of Middlesex</rs>
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as also at the aforesaid parish<lb></lb>
of Saint Bartholomew the less in the Ward aforesaid in <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo1427">London</rs>
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aforesaid did languish<lb></lb>
and languishing did live on which said Second day of September in the year aforesaid<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1371-28">Mary Allenby</rs>
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at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo1428">parish and Ward</rs>
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aforesaid in <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo1429">London</rs>
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aforesaid of the<lb></lb>
said mortal wound did die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid<lb></lb>
do say that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1371-29">Mary Allenby</rs>
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not being of sound mind memory and understanding<lb></lb>
but lunatic and distracted did in manner and by the means aforesaid kill herself<lb></lb>
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1371-45">Edward Wright Whitcomb</rs>
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<lb></lb>
the foreman of the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his fellows in<lb></lb>
their presence have to this Inquisition set their hands and Seals the day year and<lb></lb>
place first above written.<lb></lb>
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<p n="1372"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1372-1">Ed. Whitcomb</rs>
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