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within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter,
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France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
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William
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Owen
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Thomas Franklin
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Richard Orsborn
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James Thomas
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James Cope
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Richard Brock
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William Perfect
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,, good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
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chosen, who being then and there duly Sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the
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King, when, how, and by what Means the said
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came to
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h is Death, do upon their Oath Say, That the said
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William Blake
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not being Sound
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Mind Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and Distracted on the Fourteenth day of August in the Year
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aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid, one end of a pair of Worsted Garters tied together
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to an Iron Rod to the Tester of a Bed in the Bed Chamber of his Dwelling House in Marshall Street, and
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the other and thereof about his own Neck did for top and Fasten and there with did then and there Hang
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Suffocate and Strangle himself of which said Hang
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Suffocation and Strangling he the Said
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William
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Blake
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then and there instantly Died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do Says
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That the said
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William Blake
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not being of Sound Mind Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and Distracted
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in manner and by the Means aforesaid did Kill himself. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner
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as the Foreman of the Jurors aforesaid on behalf of himself and the rest of the said Jurors have to this
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Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day Year and at the Place abovementioned.
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Henry Hillam
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