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<p n="677"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo950">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo951">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="WACWIC65231_geo952">Parish of 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="WACWIC65231_geo953">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo954">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the Second day of June in the Thirty first<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="WACWIC65231_n677-1">Thomas<lb></lb>
Prickard</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65231_occ751">Gentleman</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65231_occ752">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 <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n677-2">James Holt</rs>
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then and there <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65231_occ753">lying dead</rs>
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, upon<lb></lb>
the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n677-3">Richard Tomkins</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n677-4">Joseph Dane</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n677-5">James Winks</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n677-6">James Wise</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n677-7">Thomas Millis</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n677-8">Joseph Cumbarlidge</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n677-9">John<lb></lb>
Fitzpatrick</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n677-10">George Statton</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n677-11">Henry Norton</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n677-12">Charles Warpall</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n677-13">Thomas Stevens</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n677-14">Wm. Grant</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n677-15">stephen Preston</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="WACWIC65231_n677-16">James Holt</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
h is Death, do upon their Oath say , That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n677-17">James Holt</rs>
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not being<lb></lb>
of sond mind memory and Understanding but <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65231_occ754">Lunatick</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
distracted on the First day of June in the Year aforesaid into a certain<lb></lb>
Pond situate in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo955">Green Park</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo956">Parish of St. Martin in the<lb></lb>
Fields</rs>
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within the Liberty<obscured></obscured>
County aforesaid did cast and throw himself<lb></lb>
of which said casting and throwing he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n677-18">James Holt</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
Water in the said Pond was then and there suffocated and drowned<lb></lb>
of which said Suffocation and drowning he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n677-19">James Holt</rs>
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then and<lb></lb>
there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do<lb></lb>
say that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n677-20">James Holt</rs>
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not being of sound mind memory and<lb></lb>
understanding but Lunatic and distracted in manner and by the means<lb></lb>
aforesaid did hill himself,</p>
<p n="678">In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner<lb></lb>
as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n678-1">Richard Tomkins</rs>
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Foreman of the said Jurors on the behalf<lb></lb>
of himself and the rest of his Fellows in their presence have to this<lb></lb>
Inquisition at their Hands and Seals the Day Year and Place<lb></lb>
abovementioned</p>
<p n="679"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n679-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="680"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n680-1">Rich'd Tomkin</rs>
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