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<p n="1261"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65239_geo1332">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
In the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65239_geo1333">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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to wit,<lb></lb>
An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King, at the House of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65239_n1261-1">James Empson</rs>
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the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65239_geo1334">Sign of the Adam and Eve</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65239_geo1335">Bowling Alley</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65239_geo1336">Parish<lb></lb>
of Saint 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="WACWIC65239_geo1337">St. Peter, Westminster</rs>
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, in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65239_geo1338">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the sixth 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, Defender of the Faith,<lb></lb>
and so forth, before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65239_n1261-2">Anthony Gell</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65239_occ663">Esq</rs>
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. <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65239_occ664">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_n1261-3">William Blake</rs>
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then and there<lb></lb>
lying dead, upon the Oath ofthe several Juror 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_n1261-4">William Blake</rs>
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came to his Death, do upon<lb></lb>
their Oath say that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65239_n1261-5">William Blake</rs>
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not being of sound<lb></lb>
Mind Memory and Understanding but lunatic & distracted<lb></lb>
out<obscured></obscured>
or about the Fifth day of July in the Year aforesaid at<lb></lb>
the Parish and in the Liberty aforesaid To Wit in the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65239_geo1339">River Thames</rs>
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there did cast and throw himself and in<lb></lb>
the Waters of the said River was then and there<lb></lb>
suffocated and drowned: Of which said Suffocation and<lb></lb>
Drowning he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65239_n1261-6">William Blake</rs>
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then and there<lb></lb>
instantly died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their<lb></lb>
Oath aforesaid, do say that, the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65239_n1261-7">William Blake</rs>
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<lb></lb>
not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding<lb></lb>
but <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65239_occ665">lunatic</rs>
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and distracted in manner and by the<lb></lb>
Means aforesaid did kill himself<lb></lb>
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<p n="1262">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="1263"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65239_n1263-1">Anthy Gell</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65239_occ666">Coroner</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65239_n1264-2">John Pitt</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65239_n1264-3">Wm. Silvester</rs>
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Robt. Hutchinson<figure rend="mark"></figure>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65239_n1264-4">John Dormell</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65239_n1264-5">Wm. Peacock</rs>
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<p n="1265">Joan<obscured></obscured>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65239_n1256-923">John Farmer</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65239_n1256-411">Wm Drakford</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65239_n1256-821">James Yeoman</rs>
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