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<p n="1881"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65235_geo1776">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65235_geo1777">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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to wit,</note>
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An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King at the House of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65235_n1881-1">John Woodbridge</rs>
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the Sign of the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65235_geo1778">three Compasses</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65235_geo1779">Upper Mount Street</rs>
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within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate<lb></lb>
Church of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65235_geo1780">St. Peter, Westminster</rs>
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, in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65235_geo1781">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the sixteenth day of September<lb></lb>
in the thirty fifth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third,<lb></lb>
by the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith,<lb></lb>
and so forth, before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65235_n1881-2">Anthony Gell</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65235_occ1191">Esq</rs>
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. <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65235_occ1192">Coroner</rs>
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of our said Lord the King for the said City<lb></lb>
and Liberty, on View of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65235_n1881-3">Harriot Beard</rs>
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then and there<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65235_occ1193">lying dead</rs>
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, upon the Oath of the Several Jurors whose Names are here under written, and<lb></lb>
Seals affixed, good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly chosen, who being then and<lb></lb>
there duly sworn and charged to enquire our said Lord the King, when, how, and by<lb></lb>
what Means the said Harriot Beard came to her Death, do upon<lb></lb>
their Oath say that the said Harriot Beard, not being of sound Mind<lb></lb>
Memory and Understanding, but <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65235_geo1782">lunatic</rs>
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and distracted on the<lb></lb>
fourteenth day of September in the Year aforesaid, to Wit, into the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65235_geo1783">Serpentine<lb></lb>
River</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65235_geo1784">Hyde Park</rs>
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there did east and throw herself by means of<lb></lb>
which said casting and throwing, She the said Harriot Beard, in the<lb></lb>
Waters of the said River, was then and there suffocated and drowned, of<lb></lb>
which said Suffocation and Drowning, she the said Harriot Beard, then<lb></lb>
and there instantly died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath<lb></lb>
aforesaid do say, that the said Harriot Beard, in Manner and by Means<lb></lb>
aforesaid, not being of sound Mind Memory and understanding<lb></lb>
but lunatic and distracted did drown and kill herself<lb></lb>
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<p n="1882"> IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65235_occ1194">Coroner</rs>
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as the said Jurors, have to this Inqusition<lb></lb>
set their Hands and Seals the Day, Year, and Place first above written.</p>
<p n="1883"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65235_n1883-1">Anthy Gell</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65235_occ1195">Coroner</rs>
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<p n="1884"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65235_n1884-1">Benjn Robt Uphill</rs>
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John Wo<obscured></obscured>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65235_n1884-2">Giles Hood</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65235_n1884-3">Thos. Doswell</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65235_n1884-4">Wm. Gough</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65235_n1884-5">Jno. Robinson</rs>
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<p n="1885"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65235_n1885-1">Joseph Williams</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65235_n1885-2">John Bell</rs>
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Mr. Cheeseman<figure rend="mark"></figure>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65235_n1885-3">John Morris</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65235_n1885-5">Lawr Mitchell</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65235_n1885-4">Thos Briggs</rs>
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