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<p n="1648"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65223_geo1989">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65223_geo1990">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 John the Evangelist<lb></lb>
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65223_geo1991">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65223_geo1992">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the Twenty seventh day of December 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_n1648-1">Thomas<lb></lb>
Prickard</rs>
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, Gentleman, <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65223_occ1279">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_n1648-2">Mary Clarke</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon<lb></lb>
the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n1648-3">John Price</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n1648-4">William Stratford</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n1648-5">John Mitchell</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n1648-6">Morris Marsault</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n1648-7">George Graves</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n1648-8">Robert Reeve</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n1648-9">Peter<lb></lb>
Wyatt</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n1648-10">William Ginger</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n1648-11">John Fell</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n1648-12">William Hoare</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n1648-13">Thomas Pearce</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n1648-14">Robert Clarke</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n1648-15">John Williams</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n1648-16">George Byfield</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_n1648-17">Mary Clarke</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n1648-18">Mary Clarke</rs>
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not being<lb></lb>
of sound Mind Memory and Understanding but lunatick and<lb></lb>
distracted on the said Twenty seventh day of December in the<lb></lb>
Year aforesaid into a certain Cistern within the Dwelling-<lb></lb>
House of the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n1648-19">Mary Clarke</rs>
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in the Parish aforesaid<lb></lb>
within the Liberty and County aforesaid, there did cast<lb></lb>
and throw herself, by Means of which said Casting and<lb></lb>
Throwing she the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n1648-20">Mary Clarke</rs>
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in the Water in the<lb></lb>
said Cistern was then and there Suffocated and drowned,<lb></lb>
of which said Suffocation and Drowning she the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n1648-21">Mary Clarke</rs>
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then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid<lb></lb>
upon their Oath aforesaid do say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n1648-22">Mary Clarke</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in Manner and by the Means aforesaid, not being of sound Mind<lb></lb>
Memory and Understanding but lunatick and distracted, did<lb></lb>
drown and kill herself. In Witness whereof as<lb></lb>
well the said Coroner as, the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n1648-23">John Price</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65223_occ1280">Foreman</rs>
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<lb></lb>
of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the<lb></lb>
rest of his Fellows, in their presence have to this<lb></lb>
Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day Year<lb></lb>
and Place first abovementioned</p>
<p n="1649">Tho. Prickard Coroner</p>
<p n="1650"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n1650-1">John Price</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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