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City of Liberty
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of
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to wit.
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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 Collegiate Church of St. Peter,
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in the
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, the third day of May in the thirty second
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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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Anthony
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Gell
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Esq.
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Coroner
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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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William Moulton
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then and there
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lying dead
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, upon
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the Oath of
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Thomas Barlow
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William Garner
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John Randall
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Charles
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Williams
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Edward Young
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Samuel Sealy
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William Goods
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John Church
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Lewis Delamott
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;
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John Griffiths
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William Bradley
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John Vincent
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Samuel Townshend
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John Shadell
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and Mr.
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Charles Headman
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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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William Moulton
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came to
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h is Death, do upon their Oath say, that the said
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William Moulton
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not being
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of sound Mind, Memory, and Understanding, but
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lunatic
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& distracted
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on the second day of May in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish
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aforesaid in the Liberty aforesaid, one End of a certain Piece of small
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Cord unto an Iron Nail fastened in a Quarter Partition in the
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Lodging Room or Apartment of him the said
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William Moulton
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in Buck Lane in the Parish and County aforesaid,and the other
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End thereof about his own heck, did fix, tye, and fasten, & therewith
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did then and there hang, suffocate, and strangle himself of which
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said hanging, Suffocation, and Strangling he the said
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William
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Moulton
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then and there died: And so the Jurors aforesaid, do say,
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that the said
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William Moulton
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and Understanding, but lunatic and distracted, in manner
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and by means aforesaid, did kill himself. In Witness
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whereof as well the said Coroner as the said
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Thomas Barlow
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rest of his
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the
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said Fellows in their Presence, have to this
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Inquisition set their hands & Seals the day Year & Place
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Thos Barlow
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