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<p n="2102"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65235_geo2021">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
In the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65235_geo2022">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 House of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65235_n2102-1">Michael Roberts</rs>
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the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65235_geo2023">Sign of the sd Lion</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65235_geo2024">old Pye Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65235_geo2025">Parish of St. John</rs>
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within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65235_geo2026">St. Peter, Westminster</rs>
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, in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65235_geo2027">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the second day of November 1795<lb></lb>
in the thirty sixth 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_n2102-2">Anthony Gell</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65235_occ1309">Esq.</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65235_occ1310">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_n2102-3">Margaret Pettington</rs>
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then and there<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65235_occ1311">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 for our said Lord the King, when, how, and by<lb></lb>
what Means the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65235_n2102-4">Margaret Pettington</rs>
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came to her Death, do upon<lb></lb>
their Oath say that the said Margaret Pettington not being of sound Mind<lb></lb>
Memory and understanding but <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65235_occ1312">lunatic</rs>
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and distracted on the thirty<lb></lb>
first day of October in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the<lb></lb>
Liberty aforesaid to Wit in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65235_geo2028">Pye Street</rs>
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aforesaid one end of a certain<lb></lb>
Piece of small Cord units on Iron Nail fastened into the Wainscott<lb></lb>
in the Lodging Room of her the said Margaret Pettington and the<lb></lb>
other end thereof about her own Neck did fix tye and fasten and<lb></lb>
therewith did then and that hang suffocate and strangle<lb></lb>
herself: of which said Hanging Suffociation and Strangling<lb></lb>
she the said Margaret Pettington then and there instantly<lb></lb>
died. And so the Sworn aforesaid upon their path aforesaid<lb></lb>
do say that the said Margaret Pettington not being of<lb></lb>
sound Mind Memory and Understanding but lunatic<lb></lb>
and distracted in manner and by the means aforesaid<lb></lb>
did kill herself</p>
<p n="2103">IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65235_occ1313">Coroner</rs>
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as the said Jurors, have to this Inquisition<lb></lb>
set their Hands and Seals the Day, Year, and Place first above written.</p>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65235_occ1314">Coroner</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65235_n2104-2">John Randal</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65235_occ1315">Foreman</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65235_n2104-4">William Porle</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65235_n21024-5">John Vincent</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65235_n2105-2">George Lane</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65235_n2105-3">Thos: Batkin</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65235_n2105-4">John Goodmen</rs>
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Young</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65235_n2106-4">Moses Ford</rs>
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