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<p n="1146"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65202_geo986">City and Liberty of Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65202_geo987">County of Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit.</note>
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<p n="1147">An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King<lb></lb>
at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65202_geo988">Parish of St. George Hanover Square</rs>
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, within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate<lb></lb>
Church of St. Peter <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65202_geo989">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65202_geo990">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65202_date220">Third day of December</rs>
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in the Third you<lb></lb>
of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third by the grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland<lb></lb>
King Defender of the Faith and so forth, before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1147-1">Thomas Prickard</rs>
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Gentleman Coroner of our said Lord<lb></lb>
the King for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1147-2">Thomas Philpot</rs>
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then and there<lb></lb>
lying Dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1147-3">Christopher Blenkarn</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1147-4">John Jenkinson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1147-99">John Donnald</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1147-5">William Cave</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1147-6">John Corn</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1147-7">John<lb></lb>
Robinson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1147-8">Thomas Bowen</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1147-9">John Orton</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1147-10">Thomas Gibson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1147-11">James Sparrow</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1147-12">John Young</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1147-13">Joseph Williams</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1147-88">Michael<lb></lb>
Gano</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1147-14">Charles Marsden</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1147-77">James Shedwick</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1147-15">Richard Beach</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1147-55">James Goldswain</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1147-16">Thomas Hedges</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1147-17">Richard Hand</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1147-18">John Vincent</rs>
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& <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1147-33">Michael Play</rs>
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good and lawfull Men of the said Liberty duly chosen, and who being then and there duly Sworn and Charged<lb></lb>
to inquire for our said Lord the King, when how and by what means the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1147-19">Thomas Philpot</rs>
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came<lb></lb>
his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1147-20">Thomas Philpot</rs>
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not being of sound Mind Memory<lb></lb>
and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted on the Second day of December in the Year<lb></lb>
aforesaid, at the Parish aforesaid in the Liberty and County aforesaid, one End of a certain Piece<lb></lb>
of small bord unto a Brass Hook Fastened into the Wainscott, in a Room one pair of Stairs, in the<lb></lb>
dwelling House of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1147-21">Peter Swan</rs>
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situate and being at <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65202_geo991">Pimlico</rs>
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in the Parish Liberty and County aforesaid<lb></lb>
and the other End thereof about his own Neck did fix tye and fasten, and therewith did then<lb></lb>
and there hang, suffocate, and strangle himself, of which said Hanging Suffocation and Strangling<lb></lb>
He the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1147-22">Thomas Philpot</rs>
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then and there instantly Died: And so the Jurors aforesaid upon<lb></lb>
their Oath aforesaid. do say, that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1147-23">Thomas Philpot</rs>
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, not being of sound Mind Memory and <lb></lb>
Understand, but Lunatick and distracted, in Manner and by the Means aforesaid, did Kill<lb></lb>
Himself. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1147-24">Christopher Blenkarn</rs>
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Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of Himself and the rest of his said Fellows, in their<lb></lb>
presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals, the Day Year and Place abovementioned</p>
<p n="1148"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1148-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1148-2">Christopher Blenkarn</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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