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<p n="48"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65220_geo67">Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65220_geo68">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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to wit. </note>
<lb></lb>
An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King, at the Parish of Saint James<lb></lb>
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65220_geo69">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65220_geo70">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the Eighteenth day of January in the Twentieth Year<lb></lb>
of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great-Britain,<lb></lb>
France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith and so forth, before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65220_n48-1">Thomas Prickard</rs>
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, Gentleman,<lb></lb>
Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of <lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65220_n48-2">Thomas Ireland</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65220_n48-3">Benjamin<lb></lb>
Boyden</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65220_n48-4">Abraham Lyon</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65220_n48-5">John Fairbeard</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65220_n48-6">Thomas Metcalf</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65220_n48-7">Andrew Smith</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65220_n48-8">John<lb></lb>
Blunt</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65220_n48-9">Thomas Smith</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65220_n48-10">John Rhodes</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65220_n48-25">Richard Suett</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65220_n48-11">Thomas Fardley</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65220_n48-12">Samuel Collett</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65220_n48-13">William Windsor</rs>
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good and Lawfull Men of the said Liberty duly<lb></lb>
chosen, who being then and there duty sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the<lb></lb>
King, when, how, and by what Means the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65220_n48-14">Thomas Ireland</rs>
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came to <lb></lb>
his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65220_n48-15">Thomas Ireland</rs>
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, Not<lb></lb>
being of Sound Mind Memory and Understanding but lunatic<lb></lb>
and distracted on the thirteenth day of January in the Year aforesaid<lb></lb>
at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid in the<lb></lb>
Dwelling House of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65220_n48-16">Thomas Atkinson</rs>
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there situate with a certain Razor<lb></lb>
made of Iron and Steel which he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65220_n48-17">Thomas Ireland</rs>
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then and<lb></lb>
there had and held in his Right Hand the Throat or Gullet of him<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65220_n48-18">Thomas Ireland</rs>
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did then and there strike stab and<lb></lb>
penetrate, thereby then and there giving unto himself the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65220_n48-19">Thomas Ireland</rs>
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with the Razer aforesaid in and upon the Throat<lb></lb>
or Gullet of him the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65220_n48-20">Thomas Ireland</rs>
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one mortal wound of the<lb></lb>
Length of three Inches and of the depth of one Inch, of which said<lb></lb>
mortal wound he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65220_n48-21">Thomas Ireland</rs>
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from the said thirteenth day<lb></lb>
of January in the Year aforesaid until the Seventeenth day of the<lb></lb>
same Month and Year at the Parish and in the Liberty and County<lb></lb>
aforesaid did Languish and Languishing did live, on which said Seventeenth<lb></lb>
day of January he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65220_n48-22">Thomas Ireland</rs>
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of the Mortal wound aforesaid<lb></lb>
there did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say<lb></lb>
that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65220_n48-23">Thomas Ireland</rs>
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not being of sound Mind Memory 7 understanding<lb></lb>
but lunatic and discharge in Manner and by the means aforesaid did kill<lb></lb>
himself. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65220_n48-24">Benjamin<lb></lb>
Boydon</rs>
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Foreman of the said Jurors, on the on behalf of Himself and the rest of his<lb></lb>
said Fellows, in their Presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands, and<lb></lb>
Seals the Day Year and Place abovementioned.</p>
<p n="49"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65220_n49-1">Thos. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65220_occ17">Coroner</rs>
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.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65220_n49-2">Benja Boydon</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65220_occ18">Foreman</rs>
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