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<p n="330"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65219_geo375">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65219_geo376">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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} to wit.</note>
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An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King, at the Parish of Saint George <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65219_geo377">Hanover Square</rs>
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within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65219_geo378">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65219_geo379">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the Twenty Fourth day of March 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="WACWIC65219_n330-1">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="WACWIC65219_n330-2">John Wisdom</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n330-3">William<lb></lb>
Hood</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n330-4">William Chandler</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n330-5">Peter Henderson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n330-6">James Tims</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n330-7">William Turley</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n330-8">William Paterson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n330-9">George Elkins</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n330-10">John Matthews</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n330-11">Thomas Britton</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n330-12">John Barber</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n330-13">Walter Wood</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n330-14">Joseph Higgs</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="WACWIC65219_n330-15">John Wisdom</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
h is Death, do upon their Oath say That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n330-16">John Wisdom</rs>
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, not being of<lb></lb>
sound Mind Memory and Understanding but lunatick and<lb></lb>
distracted, on the Twenty third day of March in the Year aforesaid<lb></lb>
one End of a certain piece of small Cord unto a Wooden Rafter<lb></lb>
in the Necessary House or Privy of him the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n330-17">John Wisdom</rs>
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<lb></lb>
situate in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65219_geo380">Brick Street</rs>
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in the Parish aforesaid within the<lb></lb>
Liberty and County aforesaid, and the other End thereof about<lb></lb>
his own Neck did fix tye and fasten, and therewith did<lb></lb>
then and there Hang suffocate and Strangle himself,<lb></lb>
of which said Hanging Suffocation and Strangling he the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n330-18">John Wisdom</rs>
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then and there died. And so the Jurors<lb></lb>
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n330-19">John Wisdom</rs>
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, not being of sound Mind Memory and<lb></lb>
Understanding but lunatick and distracted in Manner and<lb></lb>
by the Means aforesaid did kill himself. In Witness<lb></lb>
whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n330-20">William Hood</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Foreman of the said Jurors on the behalf of himself and<lb></lb>
the rest of his said Fellows, in their presence, have to this<lb></lb>
Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day Year and Place<lb></lb>
above mentioned.</p>
<p n="331"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n331-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65219_occ106">Coroner</rs>
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<p n="332">Wm. HoodForeman</p>
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