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<p n="1276"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65218_geo1427">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65218_geo1428">County of <lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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.}<lb></lb>
to wit. </note>
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<p n="1277"> An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the <lb></lb>
King at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65218_geo1429">Parish of St. John the Evangelist</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_geo1430">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65218_geo1431">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the Tenth day of November in the Nineteenth 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_n1277-1">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_n1277-2">James Jefferys</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1273-28">Robert<lb></lb>
Balfour</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1277-3">George Bailey</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1277-4">William Salter</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1277-5">William Bacon</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1273-25">Henry Twichell</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1277-6">James Tomlin</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1277-7">John Unthank</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1277-8">Joseph Carron</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1277-9">John Brown</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1277-10">John Edwards</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1273-26">James Conybear</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1277-11">Thomas Smith</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1273-27">Noel Topham</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1277-12">Charles Burg</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1277-13">John Brough</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1277-14">John White</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1277-15">Sayes Beaumont</rs>
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& <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1277-16">John Vallar</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 Mean the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1277-17">James Jefferys</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_n1277-18">James Jefferys</rs>
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not being <lb></lb>
of sound Mind Memory and Understanding but lunatick and <lb></lb>
distracted on the Ninth day of November in the Year aforesaid<lb></lb>
at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County<lb></lb>
aforesaid, one End of a Certain Piece of small Cord unto a<lb></lb>
Wooden Shelf in the Lodging Room of him the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1277-19">James<lb></lb>
Jefferys</rs>
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in the Dwelling House of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1277-20">Elizabeth Rogers</rs>
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there situate<lb></lb>
and the other End thereof about hie own Neck did fix, tye, and <lb></lb>
fasten, and therewith did<obscured></obscured>
and there hang Suffocated and<lb></lb>
strangle himself, of which<obscured></obscured>
aid Hanging suffocation and<lb></lb>
Strangling he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1277-21">James Jefferys</rs>
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then and there died<lb></lb>
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do<lb></lb>
say that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1277-22">James Jefferys</rs>
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in manner and by the<lb></lb>
Means aforesaid, not being of sound Mind Memory and <lb></lb>
Understanding but lunatick and distraced, did Kill<lb></lb>
himself, In Witness Where of as well the said Coroner<lb></lb>
as the said Robert Balfour Foreman of the said Jurors, on <lb></lb>
the behalf of himself an the rest of his said Fellows, in their<lb></lb>
Presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals<lb></lb>
the Day Year and Place abovementioned.</p>
<p n="1278"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1278-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65218_occ401">Coroner</rs>
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</p>
<p n="1279">Robt Balfour Foreman</p>
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