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(To wit)}</note>
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AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at The Parish<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCOIC65102_geo2285">Saint George</rs>
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in the County of<lb></lb>
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, the <rs type="date" id="LMCOIC65102_date344">Thirtieth Day of July in the Twenty fifth 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_n2269-2">Thomas Phillips</rs>
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one of the Coroners of our said Lord the King for the said County, on View of the Body of <lb></lb>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2269-4">Richard Legg</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2269-5">William Bridges</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2269-6">Thomas Tyrell</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2269-7">William Muscot</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2269-8">William Allen</rs>
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Daniel<lb></lb>
Holmes, Robert Carmen, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2269-9">Paul Randall</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2269-10">William Field</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2269-11">James Nowladd</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2269-12">John Raymouth</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2269-13">Samuel Kentish</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2269-14">Joshua Morris</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2269-15">Thomas Burgess</rs>
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good and lawful Men of the said County, duly chosen, 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_n2269-16">Sarah Bentley</rs>
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came to her<lb></lb>
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2269-17">Sarah Bentley</rs>
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not being of sound mind<lb></lb>
memory and understanding but Lunatic and distracted on the Twenty Eighth Day of July<lb></lb>
in the Year aforesaid herself out of a Three Pair of Stairs Window in the Dwelling House of<lb></lb>
her Husband <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2269-18">Richard Bentley</rs>
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situate in the Parish and County aforesaid to and against the<lb></lb>
Ground there did cast and throw By Means whereof she the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2269-19">Sarah Bentley</rs>
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did then<lb></lb>
and there receive divers mortal Bruises in and upon the Head Body, Back and Arms of her<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2269-20">Sarah Bentley</rs>
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, Of which said mortal Bruises she the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2269-21">Sarah Bentley</rs>
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then<lb></lb>
and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2269-22">Sarah Bentley</rs>
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not being of sound MindMemory and Understanding but Lunatic and<lb></lb>
distracted in manner and by the means aforesaid did kill herself</p>
<p n="2270"> IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2270-1">Richard Legg</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="2271"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2271-1">Thos. Phillips</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2271-2">Richard Legg</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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