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<p n="1144"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo1231">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo1232">County of <lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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}<lb></lb>
to Wit.</note>
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<p n="1145">An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King, at the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo1233">Saint Anne</rs>
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<lb></lb>
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo1234">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo1235">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the Thirteenth day of September in the Sixteenth 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="WACWIC65216_n1145-1">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="WACWIC65216_n1145-2">Thomas Smith</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1145-3">Robert<lb></lb>
Allen</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1145-4">John Beales</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1145-5">William Hutchinson</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1145-6">Ezekiel Urell</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1145-7">Phillip Blackman</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1145-8">John<lb></lb>
Ireland</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1145-20">William Towler</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1145-9">Robert Slack</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1145-10">John Richardson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1145-11">John Brown</rs>
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John Leaton,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1145-12">Thomas Mitchell</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1145-21">George Stretton</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="WACWIC65216_n1145-13">Thomas Smith</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1145-14">Thomas Smith</rs>
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, not being of<lb></lb>
sound Mind Memory and Understanding but Lunatick and distracted,<lb></lb>
on the thirteenth day of September in the Year aforesaid, one End of a<lb></lb>
certain Linen Handkerchief unto an Iron Hook fastened into the<lb></lb>
Door frame in the Cellar of the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1145-15">Thomas Smith</rs>
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in the Dwelling House<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1145-16">Timothy Vaughan</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo1236">Oxford Street</rs>
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in the Parish aforesaid within the<lb></lb>
Liberty and County aforesaid, and the other End thereof about his own<lb></lb>
Neck, did fix tye and fasten and therewith did then and there<lb></lb>
hang Suffocate and strangle himself, of which said Hanging<lb></lb>
Suffocation and Strangling he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1145-17">Thomas Smith</rs>
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then and there<lb></lb>
died. And so the Jurors aforesaid Upon their Oath aforesaid do say<lb></lb>
that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1145-18">Thomas Smith</rs>
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, not being of sound Mind Memory<lb></lb>
and Understanding but lunatick End distracted, in Manner<lb></lb>
and by the Means aforesaid, did hang and kill himself<lb></lb>
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1145-19">Robert<lb></lb>
Allen</rs>
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Foreman of the said Jurors, have to this Inquisition<lb></lb>
set their Hands and Seals, the Day Year and Place first<lb></lb>
abovewritten</p>
<p n="1146"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1146-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65216_occ358">Coroner</rs>
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.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1146-2">Prob Allen</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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