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<p n="946"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65208_geo877">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65208_geo878">County of<lb></lb>
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 Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65208_geo879">St. Clement Danes</rs>
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within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65208_geo880">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65208_geo881">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65208_date178">Twenty eighth day of June</rs>
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in the Eighth 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="WACWIC65208_n946-1">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="WACWIC65208_n946-2">Hannah Bignell</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n946-3">Moses<lb></lb>
Wingrove</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n946-4">William Henderson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n946-5">Thomas Evans</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n946-6">Henry Taylor</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n946-28">Thomas Norwell</rs>
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<interp inst="WACWIC65208_n946-28" type="surname" value="Norwell"></interp>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n946-7">John<lb></lb>
Mortimer</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n946-37">Emanuel Roe</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n946-8">Matthew Richards</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n946-74">Sebastian Witz</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n946-9">William Payne</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n946-10">Thomas Berry</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n946-88">John Chapelow</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n946-11">Ambrose Pennington</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n946-12">Benjamin Dawson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n946-13">Richard Thomas</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n946-14">Joseph King</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n946-15">Robert Greenwood</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n946-16">James Watson</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="WACWIC65208_n946-17">Hannah Bignell</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n946-18">Hannah Bignell</rs>
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not being of sound<lb></lb>
Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatic and distracted, on the Twenty-<lb></lb>
-seventh day of June in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish aforesaid within the<lb></lb>
Liberty and County aforesaid, one End of a certain piece of small Lord over<lb></lb>
the top of the Door of the Necessary House or Privy of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n946-54">Henry Holbrook</rs>
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, situate<lb></lb>
and being in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65208_geo882">Wych Street</rs>
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in the said Parish Liberty and County, and the other<lb></lb>
End thereof about her own Neck, did Six tie and fasten, and therewith did<lb></lb>
then and there hang suffocate and strangle herself, of which said<lb></lb>
Hanging, Suffocation, and Strangling, she the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n946-19">Hannah Bignell</rs>
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<lb></lb>
then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath<lb></lb>
aforesaid do say, that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n946-20">Hannah Bignell</rs>
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not being of sound<lb></lb>
Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted, in<lb></lb>
Manner and by the Means aforesaid, did kill herself. In Witness<lb></lb>
whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n946-21">Moses Wingrove</rs>
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Foreman<lb></lb>
of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows,<lb></lb>
in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals,<lb></lb>
the Day Year and Place first above written</p>
<p n="947"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n947-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65208_occ263">Coroner</rs>
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</p>
<p n="948"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n948-1">Moses Wingrove</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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