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An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
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King, at the Parish of
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in the Eleventh Year
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of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great-Britain,
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France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before
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Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of
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Ann Wilson
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
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Thomas
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William Thomas
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Charles Thomas
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Thomas Moses
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John Swallow
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Thomas
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Strahan
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John Storr
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Thomas Murthe
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Anthony Hopkins
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and
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Edward Thomas
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good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
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chosen, who being then and there duly sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the
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King, when, how, and by what Means the said
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Ann Wilson
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came to
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Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatic and distracted, on the
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Thirtieth day of January in the Year aforesaid, one End of a Linnen
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Handkerchief unto an Iron Hook fastened into a piece of Timber in
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the Corrier of a certain Wooden Shed situate in
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within the
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Parish of
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aforesaid, and the other End
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thereof abour her own Neck did fix tye and fasten, and there with
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did then and there hang suffocate and strangle herself, of which
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said Hanging, Suffocation and Strangling she the said
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Ann Wilson
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then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath
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aforesaid do say, that the said
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Ann Wilson
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, not being of sound
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Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatic and distracted,
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in Manner and by the Means aforesaid did hill herself
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In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said
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Thomas Burford
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Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of
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himself and the rest of his Fellows, in their presence, have to this
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Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day Year and Place
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first above written
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