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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65204_geo1626">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<p n="1587">An Inquisition Indented taken for Our Sovereign Lord<lb></lb>
the King at the Parish of Saint Jameswithin the Liberty of the Dean and Chaple<lb></lb>
of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65204_geo1627">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65204_geo1628">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the Twenty<lb></lb>
seventh day of November in the FifthYear of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the<lb></lb>
Third by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King. Defender of the<lb></lb>
Faith and so forth before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n1587-1">Thomas Prichard</rs>
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Gentleman Coroner of Our said Lord the<lb></lb>
King for the said City and Liberty on View of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n1587-2">Ann Osborn</rs>
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Widow then and<lb></lb>
there lying Dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n1587-3">Samuel Crowther</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n1587-4">Edward Winwood</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n1587-5">John Philips</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n1587-21">Andrew<lb></lb>
Christee</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n1587-22">Waynford Bull</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n1587-7">Richard Higgins</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n1587-8">George Peasley</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n1587-9">Richard Hoye</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n1587-10">william<lb></lb>
Froughton</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n1587-11">John Robertson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n1587-23">John Perfitt</rs>
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; <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n1587-12">Thomas Potts</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n1587-24">Richard Hennam</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n1587-13">James Foye</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n1587-14">John Thomas</rs>
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good and lawfull Men of the said Liberty ded<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
Chosen who being then and there duly Sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord in<lb></lb>
King, when how, and by what Means the said, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n1587-15">Ann Osborn</rs>
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came to her Death do<lb></lb>
upon their Oath say, that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n1587-16">Ann Osborn</rs>
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, not being of sound Mind, Memory and Understanding<lb></lb>
but lunatic and distracted, on the Twenty seventh day of November in the year aforesaid, at the Parish<lb></lb>
aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid,one End of a Certain piece of Small Cord unto the<lb></lb>
Wooden Curtain Rail of the Bed of the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n1587-17">Ann Osborn</rs>
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in her Lodging Room or Apartment in the<lb></lb>
dwelling House of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n1587-25">William Fickner</rs>
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Linnen Draper, situate and being <obscured></obscured>
in the said<lb></lb>
Parish Liberty and County, and the other End thereof about her own Tick, did fix, tye,and fasten,and<lb></lb>
therewith did then and there hang, suffocate and Strangle herself, of which said Hanging,<lb></lb>
Suffocation, and Strangling, she the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n1587-18">Ann Osborn</rs>
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then and there died. And so the Juror<lb></lb>
aforesaid, upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n1587-19">Ann Osborn</rs>
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not being of sound<lb></lb>
Mind, Memory and Understanding, but lunatic and distracted, in Manner and by the<lb></lb>
Means aforesaid, did hill herself. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner<lb></lb>
as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n1587-20">Samuel Crowther</rs>
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Foreman of the said Jurors, on the Behalf of himself<lb></lb>
and the rest of his said Fellows, in their presence, have to this Inquisition set<lb></lb>
their Hands and Seals the Day year and Place first abovewritten</p>
<p n="1588"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n1588-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65204_occ602">Coroner</rs>
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<p n="1589"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n1589-1">Saml. Crowther</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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