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<p n="140"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65239_geo121">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
In the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65239_geo122">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="WACWIC65239_n140-1">Dixon Strachan</rs>
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the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65239_geo123">Sign of the black Horse orange Court</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65239_geo124">Swallow Street</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65239_geo125">parish<lb></lb>
of Saint James</rs>
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within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church<lb></lb>
of St. Peter, <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65239_geo126">Westminster</rs>
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, in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65239_geo127">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the fifth day of February 1799<lb></lb>
in the thirty ninth- 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, Defendder of the Faith,<lb></lb>
and so forth, before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65239_n140-2">Anthony Gell</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65239_occ70">Esq</rs>
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. <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65239_occ71">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="WACWIC65239_n140-3">Robert Stapleton</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 <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65239_n140-4">Robert Stapleton</rs>
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came to h is Death, do upon<lb></lb>
their Oath say that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65239_n140-5">Robert Stapleton</rs>
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not being of sound Mind Memory and<lb></lb>
understanding but lunatic and distracted on the thirty first day day of December<lb></lb>
in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety eight at the<lb></lb>
Parish & in the Liberty aforesaid a great Quantity of Aqua for tis, being adeadly<lb></lb>
poison did then & there take drink & swallow down by means whereof he the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65239_n140-6">Robert Stapleton</rs>
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became then & there sick & distempered in her Body &<lb></lb>
of the Poison aforesaid & of the Sickness & Distember thereby occasioned from<lb></lb>
the said thirty first day of December until the third day of February<lb></lb>
in the year aforesaid at the Parish & in the Liberty aforesaid<lb></lb>
did languish and languishing did time<del>until</del>
on which said<lb></lb>
third day of February in the Year aforesaid at the parish & in the liberty<lb></lb>
aforesaid she the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65239_n140-7">Robert Stapleton</rs>
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of the Poison aforesaid<lb></lb>
& of the Sickness & Distemper occasioned thereby did die. And so the<lb></lb>
Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the sd <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65239_n140-8">Robert<lb></lb>
Stapleton</rs>
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not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding<lb></lb>
but <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65239_occ72">lunatic</rs>
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and distracted in manner and by the means aforesaid<lb></lb>
did poison and kill himself</p>
<p n="141"> 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>
<p n="142"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65239_n142-1">Anthy. Gell</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65239_occ73">Coroner</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65239_n142-2">Francis Richards</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65239_n142-3">Edwd Lloyd</rs>
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John Richardson</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65239_n142-5">George Dowie</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65239_n142-6">Joseph Quetch</rs>
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<p n="143">Sch<obscured></obscured>
Mr <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65239_n143-1">Donald<figure rend="mark"></figure>
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Jno. Thomson</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65239_n143-2">Isaac Ayton</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65239_n143-3">James Cook</rs>
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Jones</rs>
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