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<p n="610"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65232_geo806">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65232_geo807">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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.} to wit.</note>
<lb></lb>
An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King at the Parish of Saint George <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65232_geo808">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="WACWIC65232_geo809">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65232_geo810">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the Sixteenth day of March in the thirty second<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="WACWIC65232_n610-1">Thomas<lb></lb>
Prickard</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65232_occ669">Gentleman</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65232_occ670">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="WACWIC65232_n610-2">Stephen Hodges</rs>
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then and there <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65232_occ671">lying dead</rs>
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, upon<lb></lb>
the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65232_n610-3">James Morris</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65232_n610-4">George Dodd</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65232_n610-5">William Davies</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65232_n610-6">Joseph<lb></lb>
Grace</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65232_n610-7">George Arrowsmith</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65232_n610-8">William Lawrence</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65232_n610-9">James Padgett</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65232_n610-16">Thomas Syertt</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65232_n610-10">Thomas Foster</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65232_n610-11">Thomas Clarke</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65232_n610-12">William Carpenter</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65232_n610-17">William Elkin</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="WACWIC65232_n610-13">Stephen Hodges</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
his Death, do upon their Oath say That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65232_n610-14">Stephen Hodges</rs>
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not being of<lb></lb>
Sound mind memory and understanding, but <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65232_occ672">Lunatic</rs>
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and distracted,<lb></lb>
on the fifteenth day of March in the Year aforesaid at the parish aforesaid<lb></lb>
within the Liberty and County aforesaid one end of a certain piece of<lb></lb>
Small cord unto a Wooden rail in the pack Yard or area belonging to the<lb></lb>
felling house of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65232_n610-18">George Walker</rs>
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<obscured></obscured>
and being in off<obscured></obscured>
in the said<lb></lb>
Parish Liberty and County and the other End thereof about his own neck did<lb></lb>
fix the and fasten and therewith did then and there hang suffocate<lb></lb>
and Strangle himself of which said hanging suffocation and strangling<lb></lb>
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65232_n610-15">Stephen Hodges</rs>
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<lb></lb>
not being of sound mind Memory and understanding but lunatic and<lb></lb>
Distracted in Manner and by the Means aforesaid did hang himself</p>
<p n="611">In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65232_n611-1">James Morris</rs>
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Foreman of the said James on the behalf of himself<lb></lb>
and the rest of his Fellows have to this Inquisition set their Hands and<lb></lb>
Seals the day year and Place abovewritten</p>
<p n="612"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65232_n612-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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</p>
<p n="613"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65232_n613-1">James Morris</rs>
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