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<p n="657"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo681">Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo682">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
<lb></lb>
An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King at the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo683">Saint George Hanover Square</rs>
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<lb></lb>
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo684">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo685">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the Nineteenth day of April 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="WACWIC65224_n657-1">Thomas<lb></lb>
Prickard</rs>
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, Gentleman, Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on<lb></lb>
View of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n657-2">William Humphries</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon<lb></lb>
the Oath of <lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n657-3">George Warriner</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n657-4">William Mearns</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n657-5">Richard Goodwin</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n657-6">Hugh Jones</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n657-19">Robert Duckerell</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n657-7">William Ball Wheeler</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n657-20">Robert Burchill</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n657-8">David Willis</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n657-21">Robert Butler</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n657-9">George<lb></lb>
Stewart</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n657-10">John Edwards</rs>
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,<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n657-11">Edward Harvey</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n657-12">George Gow</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="WACWIC65224_n657-13">William Humphries</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n657-14">William Humphries</rs>
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<lb></lb>
not being of Sound Mind Memory and Understanding but<lb></lb>
Lunatick and distracted on the Eighteenth day of April in<lb></lb>
the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty and County<lb></lb>
aforesaid one End of a certain Piece of small Cord unto an<lb></lb>
Iron Hook fastened into the Wainscot in the Lodging Room<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
Apartment of the said William Humphires in the Dwelling<lb></lb>
House of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n657-15">Anthony Smith</rs>
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situate in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo686">Swallow Street</rs>
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in the said<lb></lb>
Parish Liberty and County, and the other End thereof about<lb></lb>
his own Neck did fix and fasten, and therewith did then<lb></lb>
and there hang suffocate and Strangle himself, of which said<lb></lb>
Hanging Suffocation and Strangling he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n657-16">William<lb></lb>
Humphries</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="WACWIC65224_n657-17">William<lb></lb>
Humphries</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="WACWIC65224_n657-18">George Warriner</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65224_occ451">Foreman</rs>
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of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself<lb></lb>
and the rest of his Fellows, in their presence, have to this Inquisition<lb></lb>
set their Hands and Seals the Day Year and Place above written</p>
<p n="658"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n658-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65224_occ452">Coroner</rs>
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</p>
<p n="659"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n659-1">George Warriner</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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