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<p n="779"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65225_geo957">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65225_geo958">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 <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65225_geo959">Parish of Saint Margaret</rs>
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within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65225_geo960">Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65225_geo961">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the Seventh day of March in the Twenty fist Year<lb></lb>
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="WACWIC65225_n779-1">Thomas<lb></lb>
Prickard</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65225_occ546">Gentleman</rs>
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,<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65225_occ547">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 Jane Sinclar then and there lying dead, upon <lb></lb>
the Oath of <lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n779-2">James Masson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n779-3">James Wilson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n779-4">William Thomas</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n779-5">Jonathan Edwards</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n779-893">John Donford</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n779-6">Samuel Mitchell</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n779-7">William Simpson</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n779-8">John Wilson</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n779-9">Richard<lb></lb>
Hatch</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 Jane Sinclar came to <lb></lb>
his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n779-10">Jane Sinclair</rs>
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not<lb></lb>
being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding but<lb></lb>
lunatick and distracted, on the said Seventh day of May in<lb></lb>
the Year aforesaid at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty<lb></lb>
and County aforesaid one End of a Certain Piece of Small<lb></lb>
Cord unto a wooden Beam in the beiling in the Lodging<lb></lb>
Room or Apartment of her the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n779-11">Jane Sinclair</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
dwelling House of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n779-12">John Plunkett</rs>
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situate and being<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65225_geo962">Great sanctuary</rs>
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within the said Parish Liberty<lb></lb>
and County and the other End thereof about her own<lb></lb>
Neck did fix lye and fasten, and therewith did then<lb></lb>
and there hang suffocate and Strangle herself, of<lb></lb>
which said Hanging suffocation and strangling<lb></lb>
she the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n779-13">Jane Sinclair</rs>
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then and there died<lb></lb>
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid<lb></lb>
do say, that the said Jane sinclair not being of sound<lb></lb>
Mind Memory and Understanding but lunatick and<lb></lb>
distracted in Manner and by the Means aforesaid did<lb></lb>
kill herself. In witness whereof as well the said Coroner<lb></lb>
as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n779-15">James Masson</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65225_occ548">Foreman</rs>
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of the said Jurors on<lb></lb>
the behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows in their<lb></lb>
presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands<lb></lb>
and Seals the Day Year and Place above written</p>
<p n="780"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n780-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<p n="781"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n781-1">James Masson</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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