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<p n="124"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65200_geo168">Westminster</rs>
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City and Liberty<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65200_geo169">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<p n="125">An Inquisition Indented and taken at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65200_geo170">Parish of St. George Hanover Square</rs>
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within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter at <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65200_geo171">Westminster</rs>
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the <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65200_date60">Sixth day of<lb></lb>
August in the thirty fourth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the second by the Grace of God of<lb></lb>
Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the faith and so forth and in the Year of our Lord One <lb></lb>
Thousand Seven hundred and sixty</rs>
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. Before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65200_n125-1">John Feary</rs>
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Coroner for our Sovereign Lord the King, <lb></lb>
for the City and Liberty of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65200_geo172">Westminster</rs>
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aforesaid. Upon a View of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65200_n125-2">Sarah Tomes</rs>
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then and there <lb></lb>
Lying Dead, by the Oaths of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65200_n125-3">Samuel Jones</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65200_n125-478">James Squit</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65200_n125-4">John Fowler</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65200_n125-5">George Nelson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65200_n125-48">James Meder</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65200_n125-6">William Mumford</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65200_n125-47">Edward Jay</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65200_n125-74">Germein Caronelle</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65200_n125-7">John Weller</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65200_n125-8">Thomas Shaw</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65200_n125-9">William Smith</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65200_n125-39">Charles<lb></lb>
Thierchen</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65200_n125-10">William Blunt</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65200_n125-11"> <del>Joseph</del>
Waters</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65200_n125-82">Peter Ams</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Good and Lawfull Men of the<lb></lb>
said City and liberty who being Sworn and Charged to Enquire for our Sovereign Lord the King, how when<lb></lb>
where and in what manner the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65200_n125-46">Sarah Tomes</rs>
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came to her Death say upon their Oaths, That or<lb></lb>
Tuesday the <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65200_date61">fifth day of August Instant</rs>
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the said Sarah Tomes being alone in the Kitchen of the Dwelling<lb></lb>
House of Mr. <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65200_n125-12">Thomas Compton</rs>
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Grocer scituate in South Audley Street in the said <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65200_geo173">Parish of St. George hanover<lb></lb>
Square</rs>
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in the Liberty and County aforesaid, with whom the said Sarah Tomes lived a Servant and not being<lb></lb>
of Lord Mind Memory and Understanding, but Lunatick and Distracted a certain cord of no Value in<lb></lb>
her hands did take and one part thereof round her Neck did put and place and the other part thereof<lb></lb>
round an Iron hook or Nail fastned and fixed in the Wainscot of the said Kitchen did put round tye and<lb></lb>
fasten by means of which putting placing and fastning as aforesaid the said Sarah Tomes herself did<lb></lb>
hang and strangle, by means of which hanging and strangling as aforesaid the said Sarah Tomes then<lb></lb>
and there instantly Died. And so the said Jurors aforesaid upon then Oaths aforesaid do say That the said<lb></lb>
Sarah Tomes the said <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65200_date62">fifth day of August</rs>
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in the Your aforesaid in the Liberty and County aforesaid, in<lb></lb>
manner and form aforesaid by her Death came and not otherwise. In Witness whereof as well the<lb></lb>
said Coroner as the Forenoon of the Jurors aforesaid have to this Inquisition set their hands and Seals<lb></lb>
the day Year, and at the Place abovesaid.</p>
<p n="126"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65200_n126-1">Jno. Feary</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65200_occ22">Coroner</rs>
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<p n="127"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65200_n127-46">Saml: Jones</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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