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<p n="1726"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65207_geo1455">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65207_geo1456">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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}to wit.</note>
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<p n="1727">An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King, at the Parish of Saint Mary le Strand<lb></lb>
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65207_geo1457">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65207_geo1458">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the Tenth Day of August in the Seventh Year<lb></lb>
of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great-Britain,<lb></lb>
France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65207_n1727-1">Thomas Prickard</rs>
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, Gentleman,<lb></lb>
Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of <lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65207_n1727-2">William Bromley</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65207_n1727-3">Hugh<lb></lb>
Anderson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65207_n1727-4">Benjamin Braim</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65207_n1727-5">John Abel</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65207_n1727-6">Thomas Davies</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65207_n1727-7">Robert Bremner</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65207_n1727-8">Christopher Hayman</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65207_n1727-28">Joseph Koonert</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65207_n1727-9">Alexander Lindsay</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65207_n1727-10">Charles Simmonds</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65207_n1727-11">William<lb></lb>
Jacks</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65207_n1727-12">Thomas Jenkins</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65207_n1727-13">Thomas De Fraine</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65207_n1727-14">Cornelius Aston</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65207_n1727-15">Robert Green</rs>
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,<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65207_n1727-16">William Cooksley</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65207_n1727-30">Wm Otteridge</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65207_n1727-29">Wm. Richardson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65207_n1727-17">Jacob Sawyer</rs>
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, & <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65207_n1727-18">George Cornish</rs>
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good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly<lb></lb>
chosen, who being then and there duly sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the<lb></lb>
King, when, how, and by what Means the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65207_n1727-19">William Bromley</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65207_n1727-20">William Bromley</rs>
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, not being of sound<lb></lb>
Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted, on the Eighth<lb></lb>
day of August in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish aforesaid within the<lb></lb>
Liberty and County aforesaid, in the dwelling House of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65207_n1727-21">Mary Pettit</rs>
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there<lb></lb>
situate, with a certain Razor made of Iron and Steel, which he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65207_n1727-22">William<lb></lb>
Bromley</rs>
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then and there had and held in his Right Hand, the Throat of him the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65207_n1727-23">William Bromley</rs>
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did then and there strike stab and penetrate, there by<lb></lb>
then and there giving unto himself with the Razor aforesaid, in and upon the<lb></lb>
Throat of him the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65207_n1727-24">William Bromley</rs>
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one mortal Wound of the Length<lb></lb>
of three Inches and of the Depth of one Inch, of which said mortal Wound<lb></lb>
he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65207_n1727-25">William Bromley</rs>
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languished about four Hours in the said<lb></lb>
Parish Liberty and County and then and thereof the Mortal Wound<lb></lb>
aforesaid did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upo their Oath aforesaid<lb></lb>
do say that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65207_n1727-26">William Bromley</rs>
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not being of sound Mind Memory<lb></lb>
and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted as aforesaid, in Manner<lb></lb>
and by the Means aforesaid did kill himself. In Witness whereof as<lb></lb>
well the sard Coroner, as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65207_n1727-27">Hugh Anderson</rs>
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Foreman of the said<lb></lb>
Jurors on the behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows, in their<lb></lb>
presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day<lb></lb>
Year and place first above written</p>
<p n="1728"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65207_n1728-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65207_occ522">Coroner</rs>
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<p n="1729"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65207_n1729-1">Hugh Anderson</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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