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<p n="2523"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo2832">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
In the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo2833">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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,}<lb></lb>
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="WACWIC65237_n2523-4">Edward Spice</rs>
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the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo2834">Sign of the Feathers</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo2835">Dean Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo2836">Parish<lb></lb>
of St. Margaret</rs>
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within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo2837">Collegiate Church<lb></lb>
of St. Peter, Westminster</rs>
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, in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo2838">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the twenty ninth day of December 1797<lb></lb>
in the thirty eighth 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="WACWIC65237_n2523-1">Anthony Gell</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65237_occ1322">Esq.</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65237_occ1323">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_n2523-2">Neil Stephenson</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 Neil Stephenson came to h is Death, do upon<lb></lb>
their Oath say that the said Neil Stephenson not being of sound Mind<lb></lb>
Memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted on the<lb></lb>
said twenty ninth day of December in the year aforesaid at the<lb></lb>
Parish and in the liberty aforesaid To Wit into the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo2839">River Thames</rs>
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<lb></lb>
there did cast and throw himself by<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Means of which said Casting<lb></lb>
and Throwing he the said Neil Stephenson in the Waters of the<lb></lb>
said River was then and there suffocated and drowned: of which<lb></lb>
said Suffocation and Drowning he the said Neil Stephenson<lb></lb>
then and there instantly died. And so the Jurors<lb></lb>
aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the<lb></lb>
said Neil Stephenson not being of sound Mind<lb></lb>
Memory and Understanding but lunatic & distracted<lb></lb>
in manner and by the Means aforesaid, did<lb></lb>
kill himself</p>
<p n="2524"> IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Jurors, have to this Inqusition<lb></lb>
set their Hands and Seals the Day, Year, and Place first above written.</p>
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<lb></lb>
F, Penn<lb></lb>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n2525-4">John Whitlock</rs>
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<p n="2526"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n2526-7">James Freeman</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n2526-8">Ambrose Maddox</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n2526-1">John Mortimore</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n2526-2">Joseph Thorne</rs>
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W Renton<lb></lb>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n2526-5">James Puzey</rs>
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