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of Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
In the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo2639">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="WACWIC65237_n2337-7">Matthew Law</rs>
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the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo2640">Sign of the Albermarle Arms</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo2641">South Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo2642">parish of Saint<lb></lb>
George Hanover Square</rs>
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within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo2643">Collegiate Church<lb></lb>
of St. Peter, Westminster</rs>
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, in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo2644">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the thirtieth day of November 1797<lb></lb>
in the thirty eighth Year of the Reign of our Soverign 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="WACWIC65237_n2337-1">Anthony Gell</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65237_occ1276">Esq.</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65237_occ1277">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="WACWIC65237_n2337-2">Ann Barrett</rs>
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then and there<lb></lb>
lying dead, 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 Ann Barrett came to h er Death, do upon<lb></lb>
their Oath say that the said Ann Barrett not being of sound Mind, Memory<lb></lb>
and Understanding but lunatic and distracted on the twenty ninth day of<lb></lb>
November in the year aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty aforesaid<lb></lb>
one end of a certain small Cord unto an Iron Nail fastened in the<lb></lb>
Wainscot of the Kitchen of the Dwelling House of the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n2337-3">Matthew<lb></lb>
Laws</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo2645">South Street</rs>
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aforesaid and the other end thereof about her<lb></lb>
own Neck did fix, tye and fasten & therewith did then and there<lb></lb>
hang suffocate suffocate and strangle herself: of which said<lb></lb>
hanging suffocation and Strangling she the said Anne<lb></lb>
Barrett then and there instantly died. And so the Jurors<lb></lb>
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said<lb></lb>
Anne Barrett not being of sound Mind Memory and<lb></lb>
Understanding but lunatic and distracted in manner<lb></lb>
and by the Means aforesaid did kill herself<lb></lb>
<lb></lb>
IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner 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="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n2340-3">James Forbes</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n2340-5">Thos Johnstone</rs>
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