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<p n="1487"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65223_geo1797">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65223_geo1798">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 James<lb></lb>
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65223_geo1799">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65223_geo1800">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the thirteenth day of November in the twenty fourth<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_n1487-1">Thomas<lb></lb>
Prickard</rs>
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, Gentleman, <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65223_occ1098">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_n1487-2">George Heming</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon<lb></lb>
the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n1487-3">Thomas Fowler</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n1487-4">George Peirce</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n1487-5">David Lyell</rs>
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Bourdillion</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n1487-22">John Venables</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n1487-7">Michael Downs</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n1487-8">William Gower</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n1487-9">William Wiggon</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n1487-23">Daniel Fulston</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n1487-10">Samuel Freeman</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n1487-11">Henry Reynell</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n1487-12">James Winkfield</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n1487-13">William Roberts</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n1487-24">Thomas Wormwell</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n1487-14">Thomas Allen</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n1487-15">William Roberts</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="WACWIC65223_n1487-16">George Heming</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n1487-17">George Heming</rs>
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, not<lb></lb>
being of sound Mine Memory and Understanding but lunatick<lb></lb>
and distracted on the Twelfth day of November in the Year<lb></lb>
aforesaid at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and<lb></lb>
County aforesaid a great Quantity of Laudanum being a<lb></lb>
deadly Poison into a certain Quantity of Water did then and<lb></lb>
there put and mix, and the said Laudanum so put and mix'd<lb></lb>
a aforesaid he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n1487-18">George Heming</rs>
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not being of sound Mind<lb></lb>
Memory and Understanding but lunatick and distracted as<lb></lb>
aforesaid did then and there take drink and swallow down; by<lb></lb>
Means whereof he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n1487-19">George Heming</rs>
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became then and there Sick<lb></lb>
and distempered in his Body of which said Sickness and Distemper<lb></lb>
he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n1487-20">George Heming</rs>
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on the said twelfth day of November<lb></lb>
in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty and<lb></lb>
County aforesaid did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid<lb></lb>
upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n1487-21">George<lb></lb>
Heming</rs>
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not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding<lb></lb>
but lunatick and distracted in Manner and by the Means<lb></lb>
aforesaid did Poison and kill himself. In Witness whereof<lb></lb>
as well the said Coroner as the said Thomas Fowler Foreman<lb></lb>
of the said Jurors on the behalf of himself and the rest of his<lb></lb>
Fellows, in their presence have to this Inquisition set their<lb></lb>
Hands and Seals the Day Year and Place abovementioned.</p>
<p n="1488"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n1488-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<p n="1489"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n1489-1">Thos. Fowler</rs>
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