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<p n="1600"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo1774">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo1775">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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.}<lb></lb>
to wit.</note>
<lb></lb>
An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King at at the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo1776">Saint George Hanover Square</rs>
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within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo1777">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo1778">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the thirteenth day of September 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_n1600-1">Thomas<lb></lb>
Prickard</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65224_occ1064">Gentleman</rs>
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, 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_n1600-2">John Small</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon<lb></lb>
the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n1600-3">Thomas Smith</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n1600-4">John Winkfield</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n1600-22">Joseph Hooper</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n1600-23">Joseph Old</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n1600-5">Edward Brook</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n1600-6">Owen Scott</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n1600-7">John Smith</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n1600-8">William Dickins</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n1600-9">Thomas Shankotes</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n1600-10">John Bell</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n1600-11">John<lb></lb>
Ivison</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n1600-12">Thomas Barnard</rs>
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<lb></lb>
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_n1600-13">John Small</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
his Death, do upon their Oath say That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n1600-14">John Small</rs>
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not being<lb></lb>
of sound Mind Memory and Understanding but lunatick and<lb></lb>
distracted on the Twelfth day of September in the Year aforesaid at<lb></lb>
the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid,<lb></lb>
with a certain Razor made of Iron and Steel which he the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n1600-15">John Small</rs>
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then and there had and held in his Right Hand,<lb></lb>
the Throat or Gullet of him the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n1600-16">John Small</rs>
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did then and<lb></lb>
there strike stab and penetrate, thereby then and there giving<lb></lb>
unto himself the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n1600-17">John Small</rs>
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with the Razor aforesaid in<lb></lb>
and upon the Throat or Gullet of him the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n1600-18">John Small</rs>
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one<lb></lb>
Mortal Wound of the Length of three Inches and of the Depth<lb></lb>
of one Inch, of which said Mortal wound he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n1600-19">John<lb></lb>
Small</rs>
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then and there instantly died. And so the Jurors aforesaid<lb></lb>
upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n1600-20">John Small</rs>
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, not<lb></lb>
being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding but lunatick<lb></lb>
and distracted, in Manner and by the Means aforesaid, did<lb></lb>
Kill himself. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner<lb></lb>
as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n1600-21">Thomas Smith</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65224_occ1065">Foreman</rs>
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of the said Jurors, on the<lb></lb>
behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows, in their presence,<lb></lb>
have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day<lb></lb>
Year and Place abovewritten</p>
<p n="1601"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n1601-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65224_occ1066">Coroner</rs>
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</p>
<p n="1602">Thos. Smith Foreman</p>
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