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<p n="983"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65218_geo1111">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65218_geo1112">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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}<lb></lb>
to wit.</note>
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<p n="984"> An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King, at the Parish of Saint James<lb></lb>
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65218_geo1113">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65218_geo1114">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the Fourteenth day of August 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_n984-1">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_n984-2">William Blake</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n984-3">Henry Hillam</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n984-4">William Taylor</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n984-21">Walter Tristrams</rs>
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: <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n984-5">John Alderson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n984-6">Richard Blackman</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n984-7">William Gilks</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n984-8">William<lb></lb>
Owen</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n984-9">William Tompkins</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n984-10">Tycho Pilbrow</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n984-11">William Smith</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n984-12">Thomas Franklin</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n984-22">Richard Orsborn</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n984-13">James Thomas</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n984-14">James Cope</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n984-15">Richard Brock</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n984-16">William Perfect</rs>
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<lb></lb>
,, 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_n984-17">William Blake</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
h is Death, do upon their Oath Say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n984-18">William Blake</rs>
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not being Sound<lb></lb>
Mind Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and Distracted on the Fourteenth day of August in the Year<lb></lb>
aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid, one end of a pair of Worsted Garters tied together<lb></lb>
to an Iron Rod to the Tester of a Bed in the Bed Chamber of his Dwelling House in Marshall Street, and<lb></lb>
the other and thereof about his own Neck did for top and Fasten and there with did then and there Hang<lb></lb>
Suffocate and Strangle himself of which said Hang<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Suffocation and Strangling he the Said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n984-19">William<lb></lb>
Blake</rs>
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then and there instantly Died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do Says<lb></lb>
That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n984-20">William Blake</rs>
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not being of Sound Mind Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and Distracted<lb></lb>
in manner and by the Means aforesaid did Kill himself. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner<lb></lb>
as the Foreman of the Jurors aforesaid on behalf of himself and the rest of the said Jurors have to this<lb></lb>
Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day Year and at the Place abovementioned.</p>
<p n="985"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n985-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65218_occ307">Coroner</rs>
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<p n="986"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n986-1">Henry Hillam</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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