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of
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An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
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King, at the
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within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the
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, the Twenty fifth day of February in the twenty fifth
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Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, of
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Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before
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Thomas
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Prickard
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of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on
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View of the Body of
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Thomas Harland
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then and there lying dead, upon
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the Oath of
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Samuel Harrison
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William Bennett
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Walter
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Brown
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Jeremiah James
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Edward Foster
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John Miles
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William Sell
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Thomas Rogers
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David Gerrard
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Thomas Weaver
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,
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John Woodward
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and Geroge
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Hardesty good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
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chosen, who being then and there duly sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the
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King, when, how, and by what Means the said
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Thomas Harland
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came to
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his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said
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Thomas Harland
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not
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being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but
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lunatick and distracted
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, on the said Twenty fifth day of
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February in the Year aforesaid one End of a certain piece
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of small Cord unto a large Nail fastened into a Wooden Beam
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in the Lodging Room or Apartment of him the said
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Thomas
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Harland
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in the dwelling House of
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John Underwood
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situate
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in
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North row
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in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty
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and County aforesaid, and the other End thereof about his
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own Neck did fix tye and fasten, and therewith did then
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and there hang suffocate and strangle himself, of which said
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Hanging Suffocation and Strangling he the said
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Thomas
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Harland
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then and there died, and so the Jurors aforesaid upon
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their Oath aforesaid do say that the said
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Thomas Harland
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not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but
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lunatick and distracted in Manner and by the Means
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aforesaid did kill himself. In Witness whereof as
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well the said Coroner as the said
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Samuel Harrison
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Foreman
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of the said Jurors on the behalf of himself and the rest
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of his Fellows in their presence, have to this Inquisition
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set their Hands and Seals the Day Year and Place abovewritten
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Tho Prickard
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