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(To Wit)}</note>
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AN INQUISITION indented, Taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at The Parish<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCOIC65102_geo2528">Fulham</rs>
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in the County of<lb></lb>
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, the <rs type="date" id="LMCOIC65102_date401">twenty seventh Day of October in the twenty sixth Year of the Reign of<lb></lb>
our sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third</rs>
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, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and<lb></lb>
Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2459-2">Thomas Phillips</rs>
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one of the Coroners of our said Lord the King for the said County, on View of the Body of <lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2459-3">Ann Westbrooke</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <lb></lb>
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, Samuel Flucks, James<lb></lb>
Phillips, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2459-8">John Grinstead</rs>
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Henley</rs>
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, Edward Hudnot, Thomas Gover, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2459-15">John Cooper</rs>
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, Edward<lb></lb>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2459-20">Warmer Orchard</rs>
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good and lawful Men of the said County, duly chosen, and who being then and there duly<lb></lb>
sworn and charged to inquire, for our said Lord the King, when, how, and by what Means, the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2459-22">Ann Westbrooke</rs>
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came to her<lb></lb>
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2459-23">Ann Westbrooke</rs>
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not being of sound mind<lb></lb>
memory and understanding but Lunatic and distracted on the Twenty fifth Day of October in the<lb></lb>
Year aforesaid one End of a small Cord to the Door of her wash house situate in the Parish and<lb></lb>
County aforesaid and the other End thereof about her own Neck did fix tye and fasten and therewith<lb></lb>
did then and there hang suffocate and strangle herself of which said Hanging Suffocation and<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCOIC65102_geo2530">Strangling</rs>
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she the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2459-24">Ann Westbrooke</rs>
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then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their<lb></lb>
Oath aforesaid do say That the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2459-25">Ann Westbrooke</rs>
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not being of sound mind memory and<lb></lb>
understanding but Lunatic and distracted in manner and by the means aforesaid did kill<lb></lb>
herself<lb></lb>
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IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroners as the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2459-26">George Needs</rs>
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the Foreman of the said Jurors, on the Behalf of himself and the Rest of his said Fellows, in<lb></lb>
their Presence, have, to this Inquisition, set their Hands and Seals, the Day and Year first<lb></lb>
above written.</p>
<p n="2460"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2460-1">Thos. Phillips</rs>
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George Needs<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Foreman</p>
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