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<p n="1509"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65221_geo1672">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65221_geo1673">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 Margaret<lb></lb>
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65221_geo1674">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65221_geo1675">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the Twenty ninth day of December in the twenty second 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="WACWIC65221_n1509-1">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="WACWIC65221_n1509-2">Elizabeth Hatton</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65221_n1509-3">John<lb></lb>
Burgess</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65221_n1509-4">William Brooks</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65221_n1509-5">Silvester Freeman</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65221_n1509-6">Thomas Munday</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65221_n1509-7">John Murphey</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65221_n1509-8">George Burch</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65221_n1509-9">Thomas Gyde</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65221_n1509-10">William Littleboy</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65221_n1509-11">Thomas Ray</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65221_n1509-22">Michael Castleton</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65221_n1509-12">James Bean</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65221_n1509-13">Stephen Davis</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65221_n1509-14">Thomas Watts</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65221_n1509-15">William Jones</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="WACWIC65221_n1509-16">Elizabeth Hatton</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65221_n1509-17">Elizabeth Hatton</rs>
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, not<lb></lb>
being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick<lb></lb>
and distracted, on the Twenty eighth day of December in the<lb></lb>
Year aforesaid at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and<lb></lb>
County aforesaid, one End of a certain Silk Handkerchief unto an<lb></lb>
Iron Jack, fixed in the Kitchen in the Dwelling House of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65221_n1509-18">John<lb></lb>
Burgess</rs>
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Gurney situate and being in the said Parish Liberty<lb></lb>
and County, and the other End thereof about her own Neck did<lb></lb>
fix tye and fasten, and there with 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="WACWIC65221_n1509-19">Elizabeth Hatton</rs>
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<lb></lb>
then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon<lb></lb>
their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65221_n1509-20">Elizabeth Hatton</rs>
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<lb></lb>
not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but<lb></lb>
lunatick and distracted, in Manner and by the Means<lb></lb>
aforesaid, did kill herself. In Witness whereof<lb></lb>
as well the said Coroner, as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65221_n1509-21">John Burgess</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Foreman of the said Jurors on the behalf of himself<lb></lb>
and the rest of his Fellows, in their presence, have to<lb></lb>
this Inquisition set their Hands, and Seals the Day Year<lb></lb>
and Place abovewritten</p>
<p n="1510"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65221_n1510-1">Thos. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65221_occ1034">Coroner</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="1511"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65221_n1511-1">John Burgess</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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