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(To wit)}</note>
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AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the parish of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCOIC65102_geo1601">Saint John Wapping</rs>
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in the County of<lb></lb>
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, the <rs type="date" id="LMCOIC65102_date242">twenty third Day of January in the twenty third Year of the Reign of<lb></lb>
our sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third</rs>
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, by the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France, and<lb></lb>
Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1537-2">Thomas Phillips</rs>
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one of the Coroners of our said Lord the King for the said County, in View of the Body of <lb></lb>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <lb></lb>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1537-14">James French</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1537-15">Richard Moore</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1537-17">Joseph Hare</rs>
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good and lawful Men of the said County, duly chose, and who being then and there duly<lb></lb>
sworn and charged to inquire, for our said Lord the King, when, how, and by what Means, the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1537-19">John Pennycook</rs>
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came to his<lb></lb>
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1537-20">John Pennycook</rs>
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not being of sound Mind<lb></lb>
Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
on the twenty<lb></lb>
second day of January in the year aforesaid One End of a Silk Handkerchief<lb></lb>
to the Foot Rail of his Bed in the Lodging Room or Apartment of him the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1537-21">John Pennycook</rs>
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situate in <rs type="placeName" id="LMCOIC65102_geo1603">Gun Alley</rs>
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in the parish and County aforesaid<lb></lb>
and the other End about his own Neck did fix tie and fasten and therewith<lb></lb>
did then and there hang suffocate ad strangle himself of which said<lb></lb>
Hanging suffocation and Strangling he the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1537-22">John Pennycook</rs>
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then and<lb></lb>
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and so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say<lb></lb>
that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1537-23">John Pennycook</rs>
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not being of sound Mind Memory and<lb></lb>
Understanding but<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
lunatic and distracted in Manner and by the<lb></lb>
Means aforesaid did kill himself</p>
<p n="1538"> IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1538-1">William Russell</rs>
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the Foreman of the said Jurors, on the Behalf of himself and the Rest of his said Fellows, in<lb></lb>
their Presence, have, to this Inquisition, set their Hands and Seals, the Day and Year first<lb></lb>
above written.</p>
<p n="1539"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1539-1">Thos. Phillips</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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