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<p n="936">Verdict of the Jury touching the Death of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n936-1">Jane Moore</rs>
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<p n="937">That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n937-1">Jane Moore</rs>
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on the 7th. Day of August 1778, not<lb></lb>
being of Sound Mind Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and<lb></lb>
Distracted, one end of a certain Cord about the Bed Past Head in<lb></lb>
a Room three pain of Stairs backwards in the House of Mr.<lb></lb>
Rowndes in the Almoney in the Parish of St. Margaret Westmr<lb></lb>
did fix and faster and on the other and thereof Neck was<lb></lb>
Suspended, and by Means thereof did then and there Hang<lb></lb>
Suffocate and Strangle herself, of which said Hanging<lb></lb>
Suffocation and Strangling she the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n937-2">Jane Moone</rs>
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then<lb></lb>
and there instantly Died, And so the Jurors on their Oath<lb></lb>
say that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n937-3">Jane Moore</rs>
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not being of sound Mind<lb></lb>
Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and Distracted in<lb></lb>
Manner and by the Means aforesaid did kill herself. In<lb></lb>
Witness whereof the<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Foreman on behalf of himself and<lb></lb>
the rest of the Jurors has hereunto set his Hand this 8th.<lb></lb>
day of August 1778.</p>
<p n="938">The Mark of<lb></lb>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n938-1">Oswald Edwards</rs>
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. Foreman</p>
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