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<p n="187"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65211_geo131">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65211_geo132">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="WACWIC65211_geo133">St. Margaret in the City of Westminster</rs>
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within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65211_geo134">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65211_geo135">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65211_date31">Thirtieth day of January</rs>
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in the Eleventh 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="WACWIC65211_n187-1">Thomas Prickard</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65211_occ43">Gentleman</rs>
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,<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="WACWIC65211_n187-2">Ann Wilson</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n187-3">Thomas<lb></lb>
Burford</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n187-4">Edward James</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n187-99">William Frecker</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n187-5">William Bell</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n187-6">William Thomas</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n187-7">John Shipman</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n187-8">Charles Thomas</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n187-9">Thomas Moses</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n187-10">John Swallow</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n187-77">Thomas<lb></lb>
Strahan</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n187-11">John Storr</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n187-66">Thomas Murthe</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n187-12">Anthony Hopkins</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n187-13">Edward Thomas</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="WACWIC65211_n187-14">Ann Wilson</rs>
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came to <lb></lb>
Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatic and distracted, on the<lb></lb>
Thirtieth day of January in the Year aforesaid, one End of a Linnen<lb></lb>
Handkerchief unto an Iron Hook fastened into a piece of Timber in<lb></lb>
the Corrier of a certain Wooden Shed situate in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65211_geo136">St. James's Park</rs>
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within the<lb></lb>
Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65211_geo137">St. Margaret Westminster</rs>
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aforesaid, and the other End<lb></lb>
thereof abour her own Neck did fix tye and fasten, and there with<lb></lb>
did then and there hang suffocate and strangle herself, of which<lb></lb>
said Hanging, Suffocation and Strangling she the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n187-15">Ann Wilson</rs>
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then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath<lb></lb>
aforesaid do say, that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n187-16">Ann Wilson</rs>
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, not being of sound<lb></lb>
Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatic and distracted,<lb></lb>
in Manner and by the Means aforesaid did hill herself<lb></lb>
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n187-17">Thomas Burford</rs>
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Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of<lb></lb>
himself and the rest of his Fellows, in their presence, have to this<lb></lb>
Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day Year and Place<lb></lb>
first above written</p>
<p n="188"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n188-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65211_occ44">Coroner</rs>
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</p>
<p n="189"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n189-47">Thos. Burford</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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