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<p n="261"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65218_geo338">Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65218_geo339">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 <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65218_geo340">Parish of St. Martin in the Fields</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="WACWIC65218_geo341">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65218_geo342">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the Seventh day of April in the Eighteenth 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="WACWIC65218_n261-1">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="WACWIC65218_n261-2">Sarah Wall</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n261-3">Andrew<lb></lb>
Hogg</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n261-4">Daniel Stump</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n261-5">Archibald Smith</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n261-6">James Clapperton</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n261-7">John<lb></lb>
Southsby</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n261-8">Robert Salmon</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n261-9">Hudson Mason</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n261-10">Thomas Sherborn</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n261-11">John<lb></lb>
Richards</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n261-21">William Howlitt</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n261-22">John Street</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n261-12">John Barber</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n261-13">William Dodd</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n261-23">Saml. Kenrick</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n261-24">Thos. Colcomb</rs>
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& <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n261-25">Geo: Donaldson</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="WACWIC65218_n261-14">Sarah Wall</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n261-15">Sarah Wall</rs>
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not being of<lb></lb>
sound Mind Memory and Understanding but lunatick and<lb></lb>
distracted, on the Sixth day of April in the Year aforesaid at the<lb></lb>
Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid,<lb></lb>
one End of a certain Silk Handkerchief unto an Iron Rod by the<lb></lb>
Bedside in the Apartment of the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n261-16">Sarah Wall</rs>
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in the dwelling-<lb></lb>
House of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n261-17">Francis Barron</rs>
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situate and being in the said Parish<lb></lb>
Liberty and County, and the other End thereof about her own<lb></lb>
Neck did fix tye and fasten, and therewith did then and there<lb></lb>
hang suffocate and strangle herself, of which said Hanging<lb></lb>
Suffocation and Strangling she the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n261-18">Sarah Wall</rs>
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then and<lb></lb>
there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath<lb></lb>
aforesaid dosay, that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n261-19">Sarah Wall</rs>
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, not being of sound Mind<lb></lb>
Memory and Understanding but lunatick and distracted,<lb></lb>
in manner and by the Means aforesaid, did kill herself<lb></lb>
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n261-20">Andrew Hogg</rs>
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Foreman of the said Jurors, on the<lb></lb>
behalf of himself and the rest of his said Fellows, in their<lb></lb>
presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and<lb></lb>
Seals the Day Year and Place first above written</p>
<p n="262"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n262-1">Tho Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65218_occ78">Coroner</rs>
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</p>
<p n="263">Andw: HoggForeman</p>
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