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<p n="106"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65223_geo118">Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65223_geo119">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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.}<lb></lb>
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="WACWIC65223_geo120">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65223_geo121">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the First day of February in the Twenty third<lb></lb>
Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, of<lb></lb>
Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n106-1">Thomas<lb></lb>
Prickard</rs>
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, Gentleman, <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65223_occ35">Coroner</rs>
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of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on<lb></lb>
View of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n106-2">Elizabeth Ruskin</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon<lb></lb>
the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n106-3">James Grierson</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n106-4">Joseph Read</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n106-5">Samuel Games</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n106-6">John<lb></lb>
Farrell</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n106-7">Thomas Williams</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n106-8">Henry Baker</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n106-9">Isaac Venes</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n106-10">James Fletcher</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n106-15">Elias Glair</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n106-16">William Keatly</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n106-11">William<lb></lb>
Burrell</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n106-12">James Evans</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 Elizabeth Ruskin came to<lb></lb>
h er Death, do upon their Oath say , That the said Elizabeth Ruskin, not<lb></lb>
being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding but<lb></lb>
lunatick and distracted, on the Thirty first day of January<lb></lb>
in the Year aforesaid One End of a certain piece of small Cord<lb></lb>
unto an Iron Hook fastened into a Piece of Timber in the<lb></lb>
Lodging Room of her the said Elizabeth Ruskin in the<lb></lb>
Dwelling House of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n106-13">William King</rs>
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, situate<obscured></obscured>
being in<lb></lb>
Union Street in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty<lb></lb>
and County aforesaid, and the other End there of about her<lb></lb>
own Neck did fix tye and fasten, and therewith did then<lb></lb>
and there hang suffocate and strangle herself of which said<lb></lb>
Hanging Suffocation, and Strangling she the said Elizabeth<lb></lb>
Ruskin then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon<lb></lb>
their Oath aforesaid do say that the said Elizabeth Ruskin in<lb></lb>
Manner and by the Means aforesaid, not being of sound Mind<lb></lb>
Memory and Understanding but lunatick and distracted,<lb></lb>
did kill herself. In Witness whereof as well the said<lb></lb>
Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n106-14">James Grierson</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65223_occ36">Foreman</rs>
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of the said<lb></lb>
Jurors on the behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows.<lb></lb>
in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hand's<lb></lb>
and Seals the Day Year and Place above written</p>
<p n="107"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n107-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65223_occ37">Coroner</rs>
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James Grierson<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Foreman</p>
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