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<p n="18"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65200_geo24">Westminster</rs>
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City and Liberty<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65200_geo25">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<p n="19">An Inquisition Indented and taken at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65200_geo26">Parish of St. James's<lb></lb>
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter at Westminster</rs>
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the <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65200_date8">Twenty<lb></lb>
ninth Day of February in the Thirty third Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Second by the<lb></lb>
Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so forth and in the Year<lb></lb>
of our Lord One Thousand Seven hundred and Sixty</rs>
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. Before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65200_n19-1">John Feary</rs>
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Coroner for our Sovereign<lb></lb>
Lord the King for the City and Liberty aforesaid. Upon a Veiw of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65200_n19-48">Martha Strong</rs>
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then and<lb></lb>
there Lying Dead by the Oaths of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65200_n19-2">Richard Adams</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65200_n19-25">Noah Babber</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65200_n19-5">Peter Bartholomew</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65200_n19-6">William Ackley</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65200_n19-59">Robert Triphock</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65200_n19-7">Thomas Pew</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65200_n19-8">William Dorsett</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65200_n19-9">Peter Peterson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65200_n19-10">Joseph Hall</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65200_n19-11">William Gray</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65200_n19-12">Philip Andrews</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65200_n19-65">John Drapen</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65200_n19-13">Thomas Coles</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65200_n19-14">Richard Butt</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65200_n19-15">Richard Bickenton</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65200_n19-64">John Marchaux</rs>
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Good and Lawful Men of the said City and Liberty who,<lb></lb>
being Sworn and Charged to Inquire for our Sovereign Lord the King how, when where, and in what<lb></lb>
Manner the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65200_n19-28">Martha Strong</rs>
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came to her Death, say upon their Oaths That on Thursday the <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65200_date9">28th<lb></lb>
day of February Instant</rs>
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the said Martha Strong being alone in a back room Two pair of Stairs in the House<lb></lb>
where she Dwell (the Door being locked and the Key in the inside of the said Room) situate in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65200_geo27">Leicester<lb></lb>
Street</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65200_geo28">Parish of St. James</rs>
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in the Liberty and County aforesaid, and not being of Sound Mind<lb></lb>
Memory and understanding but Lunatick and Distracted a Cord of no Value into her hands did take<lb></lb>
and one part thereof round her Neck did put and place and the other part thereof round the Log of a <lb></lb>
half Teasten Turn'd up Bed in the said Room<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
put and Fasten by means of which putting placing<lb></lb>
and fasting as aforesaid the said Martha Strong herself did hang and strangle by means of which<lb></lb>
hanging and strangling she then and there Died. And so the said Jurors upon their Oath find and<lb></lb>
say That the said Martha Strong the said 28th, day of February in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65200_geo29">Parish of St. James</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
Liberty and County aforesaid in manner and form aforesaid by his Death came and not otherwise<lb></lb>
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the Foreman of the Jurors aforesaid have to this<lb></lb>
Inquisition put their hands and Seals the Day Year and at the Place aforesaid</p>
<p n="20"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65200_n20-1">Jno. Feary</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65200_occ3">Coroner</rs>
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<p n="21"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65200_n21-45">Richd. Adams</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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