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<p n="870"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65227_geo1056">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65227_geo1057">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 the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65227_geo1058">Parish of 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="WACWIC65227_geo1059">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65227_geo1060">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the twenty ninth day of June in the twenty seventh<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="WACWIC65227_n870-1">Thomas<lb></lb>
Prickard</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65227_occ716">Gentleman</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65227_occ717">Coroner</rs>
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of our said Lord the King for the City and Liberty, on<lb></lb>
View of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65227_n870-2">Charlotte Wood</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon<lb></lb>
the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65227_n870-3">Abraham Griffin</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65227_n870-4">William Gillman</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65227_n870-5">William Green</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65227_n870-6">John<lb></lb>
Weatherhead</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65227_n870-7">John Stephens</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65227_n870-823">Coulson Pearce</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65227_n870-8">John Lewes</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65227_n870-9">Thomas<lb></lb>
Jackson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65227_n870-10">Charles King</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65227_n870-11">Mark Buckingham</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65227_n870-12">John Osborne</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65227_n870-13">Joseph Willett</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65227_n870-14">Samuel Robinson</rs>
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, & <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65227_n870-15">William White</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="WACWIC65227_n870-16">Charlotte Wood</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
h er Death, do upon their Oath say That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65227_n870-17">Charlotte Wood</rs>
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not being<lb></lb>
of sound Mind Memory and Understanding but Lunatick &<lb></lb>
distracted on the said twenty ninth day of June in the Year<lb></lb>
aforesaid one End of a certain Worsted Garter unto a Wooden Teg<lb></lb>
in a Closet within the Apartment of her the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65227_n870-18">Charlotte Wood</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the dwelling House of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65227_n870-19">William Combe</rs>
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situate and being<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65227_geo1061">South Molton</rs>
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That in the<obscured></obscured>
within the<lb></lb>
Liberty and County aforesaid and the other end thereof about her<lb></lb>
own Neck did fix tie and fasten & therewith did then & therehang<lb></lb>
suffocate and strangle herself of which said hanging suffocation<lb></lb>
and strangling she the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65227_n870-20">Charlotte Wood</rs>
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then & there died<lb></lb>
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say<lb></lb>
that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65227_n870-21">Charlotte Wood</rs>
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not being of sound Mind Memory &<lb></lb>
Understanding but Lunatick and distracted in manner &<lb></lb>
by the Means aforesaid did till herself</p>
<p n="871">In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65227_n871-1">Abraham Griffin</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65227_occ718">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<lb></lb>
presence have to this Inquisition set their Hands & Seals<lb></lb>
the Day Year and Place abovementioned</p>
<p n="872"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65227_n872-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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