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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65205_geo472">County of Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit.</note>
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An Inquisition Indented taken for Our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65205_geo473">Parish of St. George</rs>
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within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter<lb></lb>
of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65205_geo475">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65205_geo476">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the Fourth<lb></lb>
Day of April in the Fifth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third by the<lb></lb>
Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so forth<lb></lb>
before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n456-1">Thomas Prickard</rs>
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Gentleman Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty<lb></lb>
On View of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n456-2">William Bold</rs>
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then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n456-3">William Soley</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n456-4">William Towse</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n456-23">Burt Wade</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n456-24">Richard Brinkley</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n456-5">Roger Garbart</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n456-6">Stephen Kendall</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n456-25">Francis Jerry</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n456-7">Isaac Morris</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n456-8">Edward Cook</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n456-9">Richard Sill</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n456-10">William Pavey</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n456-11">William Organer</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n456-12">Edward Webster</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n456-13">David Miles</rs>
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good & lawfull Men of the said Liberty duly Chosen who being<lb></lb>
then and there duly Sworn and Charged to inquire for Our said Lord the King, when, how and by<lb></lb>
what Means the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n456-14">William Bold</rs>
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came to his Death, do upon their Oath say, That<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n456-15">William Bold</rs>
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not having the Fear of God before his Eyes, but moved and Seduced by the<lb></lb>
Instigation of the Devil, on the Second day of April in the Year aforesaid, with Force and Arms at<lb></lb>
the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid in and upon Himself in the Peace of God and of<lb></lb>
our said Sovereign Lord the King then and there being, feloniously wilfully and of his Matice<lb></lb>
fore thought did make an Assault; And that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n456-16">William Bold</rs>
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one End of a certain piece of small<lb></lb>
Cord of no Value unto a large Wooden Beam in the Hayloft adjoing and belonging to the dwelling<lb></lb>
House of Mrs. <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n456-17">Ann Booth</rs>
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by situate in Upper Grosvenor Street in the said Parish Liberty and County<lb></lb>
and the other End thereof about his own Neck, did fix, tye, and fasten, and therewith did then and<lb></lb>
there hang, Suffocate, and strangle himself; of which said Hanging, Suffocation and Strangling,<lb></lb>
he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n456-18">William Bold</rs>
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did then and then instantly die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their<lb></lb>
Oath aforesaid do say, that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n456-19">William Bold</rs>
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in Manner and by the Means aforesaid feloniously<lb></lb>
wilfully, and of his Malice forethought, did hill and murder Himself, against the Peace of<lb></lb>
our said Lord the King, his Crown and Dignity. And that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n456-20">William Bold</rs>
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at the time<lb></lb>
of committing the Felony and Murder aforesaid, had no Goods or Chattels Lands or Tenements<lb></lb>
within the said Liberty, or elsewhere, to the Knowledge of the said Jurors. In Witness<lb></lb>
whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n456-21">William Soley</rs>
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Foreman of the said Jurors,<lb></lb>
on the behalf of himself and the rest of his said Fellows, in their presence, have to this<lb></lb>
Inquisition set their Hands and Seals, that Day Year and Place first above written</p>
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Foreman</p>
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