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<p n="1491"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">London</note>
An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo1424">London</rs>
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(that<lb></lb>
is to say) at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo1425">parish of Saint Stephen Coleman street</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo1426">Ward of Coleman street</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo1427">London</rs>
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aforesaid on the <rs type="date" id="LMCLIC65010_date116">twenty eighth day of October in the thirty eighth year of the<lb></lb>
reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third King of Great Britain and so forth</rs>
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before<lb></lb>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65010_occ678">Coroner</rs>
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of our said Lord the King for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo1428">City of London</rs>
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and Borough of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo1429">Southwark</rs>
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on view of the body of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1491-5">Ann Rogers</rs>
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now here lying dead<lb></lb>
by the oath of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1491-6">Jeremiah Cater</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1491-29">John Sawer</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1491-7">Robert Lawson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1491-8">William Kinnersley</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1491-30">Thomas<lb></lb>
Prior</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1491-9">John Howell</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1491-10">Edward Hughes</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1491-11">Richard Woodhouse</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1491-12">John Wootton</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1491-13">Thomas Johnson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1491-15">James Margus</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1491-16">John Barton</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1491-17">Thomas Harris</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1491-18">Henry Grover</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1491-19">John Coleman</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1491-21">Richard Dickinson</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1491-22">John Norfolk</rs>
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, good and lawful men of<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo1430">City of London</rs>
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aforesaid who being now here duly chosen sworn and charged<lb></lb>
to inquire for our said Lord the King when how and in what manner the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1491-23">Ann<lb></lb>
Rogers</rs>
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came to her death say upon their oath that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1491-24">Ann Rogers</rs>
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not being<lb></lb>
of sound mind memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted on the twenty<lb></lb>
sixth day of October in the year aforesaid one end of a certain piece of Cord of no value<lb></lb>
unto and about a certain iron nail<del>fixed</del>
in the Wall of a certain room in the<lb></lb>
dwelling house of<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo1431">Wootton</rs>
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there situate and the other end of the said piece<lb></lb>
of Cord round and about her own neck did then and there fix tye and fasten by<lb></lb>
means whereof the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1491-25">Ann Rogers</rs>
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did then and there hang strangle and suffocate<lb></lb>
herself of which said hanging strangling and suffocation the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1491-26">Ann Rogers</rs>
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did<lb></lb>
then and there die-And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1491-27">Ann Rogers</rs>
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not being of sound mind memory and understanding but lunatic<lb></lb>
and distracted in manner and by the means aforesaid did hang and kill himself<lb></lb>
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1491-28">Jeremiah Cater</rs>
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the <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65010_occ679">foreman</rs>
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of<lb></lb>
the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his fellows in their presence<lb></lb>
have to this Inquisition set their hands and seals the day year and place first<lb></lb>
above written</p>
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