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to Wit.
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An Inquisition Indented taken for Our Sovereign Lord
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the King at the Parish of
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in the Third Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third by the grace of God of Great
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Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so forth, before
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Gentleman, Coroner of Our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of
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Thomas Howard
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then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of
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Thomas Barrington
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Michael Wilson
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John Hilliard
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Joseph Moore
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William Painter
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William Burford
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William Law
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Richard Warwick
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Richard Rorewell
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John Cade
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William Burgess
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John Thompson
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Charles
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Russell
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Patrick Forne
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James Mac' Dowell
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Meredith Dodd
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William Herxes
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Richard Hey
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James Colwell
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William
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Lloyd
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and
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William Murphey
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, good and lawful Men of the said Liberty duly chosen, who being
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then and there duly sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord the King, when, how, and by
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what Means the said
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Thomas Howard
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came to his Death, do upon their Oath say, That on
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the Twenty fifth day of July in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and
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County aforesaid, the said
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Thomas Howard
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, not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding
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but lunatic and distracted, one End of a certain Linnen Handkerchief unto an Iron Hook, fastened
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in the Wall in a back Garret in the dwelling House of
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William Rouse
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, situate and being in Eagle Street
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in the said Parish Liberty and County, and the other End thereof about his own Neck, did fix,
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tye and fasten, and there with did then and there Hang, Suffocate, and Strangle himself, of which
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said Hanging, Suffocation and Strangling, He the said
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Thomas Howard
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then and there Died:
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And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said
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Thomas Howard
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, not
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being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatic and distracted, in Manner
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and by the Means aforesaid, did Kill himself, In Witness whereof as well the said
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Coroner, as the said
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James Cook
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Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the
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rest of his said Fellows, in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals
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the Day Year and Place first above written
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Coroner
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James Cook
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Foreman
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