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<p n="744"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo628">Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo629">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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}<lb></lb>
to wit.</note>
<lb></lb>
An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King, at the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo630">Saint James<lb></lb>
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo631">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65212_date131">Twentieth day of April</rs>
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in the Twelfth 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="WACWIC65212_n744-1">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="WACWIC65212_n744-2">Arabella Wilson</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n744-3">William<lb></lb>
Goodenough</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n744-4">John Fenton</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n744-5">William Longley</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n744-6">John Kinlock</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n744-7">Richard Nichols</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n744-56">John<lb></lb>
Petson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n744-8">Edward Griffin</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n744-9">James Baker</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n744-10">Charles Trinquard</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n744-11">James Watson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n744-12">John Poole</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n744-13">William Christie</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n744-26">Thomas Trobe</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n744-58">Roger Meed</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n744-14">William Stark</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n744-15">John Milbourn</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n744-16">David<lb></lb>
Bynon</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n744-17">David Lauder</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="WACWIC65212_n744-18">Arabella Wilson</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
h er Death, do upon their Oath say , That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n744-19">Arabella Wilson</rs>
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, not being of<lb></lb>
sound Mind Memory and Understanding but lunatick and distracted, on the<lb></lb>
Eighteenth day of April in the Year aforesaid, one End of a certain piece<lb></lb>
of Linnen Tape unto a Brass Hook fastened into the Wainscot in the<lb></lb>
Lodging Room or Apartment of her the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n744-20">Arabella Wilson</rs>
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, in the<lb></lb>
Dwelling House of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n744-21">Samuel Gunnell</rs>
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situate and being in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo632">Cambridge</rs>
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Street<lb></lb>
in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, and the<lb></lb>
other End thereof about her own Neck did, fix tye and fasten, and therewith<lb></lb>
did then and there Hang Suffocate and Strangle herself, of which said<lb></lb>
Hanging Suffocation and Strangling She the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n744-22">Arabella Wilson</rs>
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then<lb></lb>
and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid<lb></lb>
do say, that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n744-23">Arabella Wilson</rs>
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, not being of sound Mind Memory<lb></lb>
and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted, in Manner and by the<lb></lb>
Means aforesaid, did kill herself. In Witness whereof as well<lb></lb>
the said Coroner, as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n744-24">William Goodenough</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="745"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n745-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65212_occ209">Coroner</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n745-58">Wm: Goodenough</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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