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<p n="1501"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo1289">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo1290">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="WACWIC65212_geo1291">Saint Margaret<lb></lb>
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church St. Peter, Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo1292">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65212_date273">Ninth day of July</rs>
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in the Twelfth Year<lb></lb>
of the Regin 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_n1501-1">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_n1501-2">Elizabeth Jennings</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1501-3">James Loton</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1501-4">Lewis Boidin</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1501-5">Alexander Lowe</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1501-6">George Friswell</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1501-7">Alexander Callan</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1501-8">Thomas Fidgeon</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1501-9">John Cranstone</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1501-10">Nathaniel Bagshaw</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1501-11">William Thomas</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1501-12">Thomas George</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1501-13">Thomas<lb></lb>
Nicholson</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1501-14">Richard Wetenhall</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_n1501-15">Elizabeth Jennings</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_n1501-16">Elizabeth Jennings</rs>
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not being of sound<lb></lb>
Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted, on the Seventh day<lb></lb>
of July in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid,<lb></lb>
a great Quantity of Arsenick, being a deadly Poison, into a certain<lb></lb>
Quantity of Water did then and there put and mix, and the said White Arsenick<lb></lb>
so put and mixt as aforesaid, she the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1501-17">Elizabeth Jennings</rs>
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, not being of sound<lb></lb>
Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted as aforesaid,<lb></lb>
did then and there take drink and swallow down; by Means whereof she the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1501-18">Elizabeth Jennings</rs>
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became then and there Sick and Distempered in her Body,<lb></lb>
and of the Poison aforesaid, and of the Sickness and Distemper thereby occasioned,<lb></lb>
from the said Seventh day of July in the Year aforesaid, until the Eighth day<lb></lb>
of the same Month, in the same Year, at the Parish and in the Liberty and County<lb></lb>
aforesaid, did languish and languishing did live, on which said Eighth day of July<lb></lb>
in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid, she the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1501-19">Elizabeth Jennings</rs>
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of the Poison aforesaid, and of the Sickness and Distemper<lb></lb>
occasioned thereby, did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid<lb></lb>
do saythat the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1501-20">Elizabeth Jennings</rs>
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, not being of sound Mind<lb></lb>
Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted, in Manner and by the<lb></lb>
Means aforesaid did Poison and kill herself. In Witness whereof as well the<lb></lb>
said Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1501-21">James Loton</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 Inquisition set<lb></lb>
their Hands and Seals the Day Year and Place first above written</p>
<p n="1502"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1502-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65212_occ425">Coroner</rs>
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.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n1502-2">James Loton</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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