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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65204_geo1559">County of Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit.</note>
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<p n="1507">An Inquisition Indented taken for Our Sovereign Lord the King<lb></lb>
at the Parish of Saint Jameswithin the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of<lb></lb>
the Collegiate Church of St. Peter <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65204_geo1560">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65204_geo1561">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the Thirtieth<lb></lb>
Day of Octoberin the Fifth 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 and so<lb></lb>
forth before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n1507-1">Thomas Prickard</rs>
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Gentlemen Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City<lb></lb>
and Liberty, On View of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n1507-2">Peter Simpson</rs>
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then and there lying Dead, upon the<lb></lb>
Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n1507-3">Francis Blackburn</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n1507-4">John Phillips</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n1507-5">John Davenport</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n1507-6">Joseph Dawson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n1507-7">Robert<lb></lb>
Scott</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n1507-8">John Hall</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n1507-9">George Wilkinson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n1507-10">John Freeman</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n1507-11">William Blake</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n1507-12">William Buxton</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n1507-13">James Ross</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n1507-25">Jonathan Wagg</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n1507-14">Henry Sudbury</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n1507-26">Joseph Perfet</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n1507-15">Philip Owen</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n1507-16">Andrew<lb></lb>
Moore</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n1507-17">Edward Haynes</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n1507-18">Edward Green</rs>
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, good and lawfull Men of the said Liberty duty chosen<lb></lb>
who being then and there duly Sworn and Charged to inquire for our said Lord the King, when<lb></lb>
how, and by what Means the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n1507-19">Peter Simpson</rs>
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came to his Death do upon their Oat<lb></lb>
say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n1507-20">Peter Simpson</rs>
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, not being of Sound Mind, Memory and Understanding, but<lb></lb>
lunatic and distracted, on the Twenty seventh day of October in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish<lb></lb>
aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, a great Quantity of white Arsenic, being<lb></lb>
deadly Prison into a certain quantity of warm Milk, did then and the put and mix And<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
where acrenic so put and Mixt as aforesaid he the said Port<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
down, by Means whereof he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n1507-21">Peter Simpson</rs>
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became then and <obscured></obscured>
sich and distempered in hed<lb></lb>
Body, and of the Prison aforesaid, and of the Sickness and Distemper thereby occasioned<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n1507-22">Peter Simpson</rs>
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did Dye the same Day, in the Parish Liberty and County aforesaid<lb></lb>
And so the Jurors aforesaid, upon their Oath aforesaid, do say that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n1507-23">Peter Simpson</rs>
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<lb></lb>
not being of sound Mind, Memory, and Understanding, but lunatic and distracted, in<lb></lb>
Manner and by the Means aforesaid, did Poison and hill himself. In Witness<lb></lb>
whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n1507-24">Francis Blackburn</rs>
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, Foreman of the<lb></lb>
said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his said Fellows, in their<lb></lb>
presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals, the Day year<lb></lb>
and Place fist above written</p>
<p n="1508"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n1508-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65204_occ576">Coroner</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="1509"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n1509-1">Fran: Blackburn</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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