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<p n="6"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65230_geo4">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65230_geo5">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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to wit.</note>
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An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King, at the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65230_geo6">Saint James</rs>
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<lb></lb>
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65230_geo7">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65230_geo8">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the first day of January in the Thirtieth<lb></lb>
Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, of <lb></lb>
Great-Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n6-1">Thomas<lb></lb>
Prickard</rs>
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, Gentleman, Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on <lb></lb>
View of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n6-2">Samuel Burton</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon<lb></lb>
the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n6-3">John Mimms</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n6-4">George Butler</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n6-5">Ralph Weldon</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n6-6">Andrew<lb></lb>
Bath</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n6-19">William Blate</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n6-20">Joseph Pedder</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n6-21">Samuel Fabes</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n6-22">William<lb></lb>
Neene</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n6-7">Thomas Hickson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n6-8">William Philpott</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n6-23">Henry Cauling</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n6-9">William<lb></lb>
Marshall</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n6-10">William Allison</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n6-11">Elisha Whittaker</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n6-24">Samuel Persons</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n6-12">William<lb></lb>
Berry</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n6-13">James Savage</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n6-25">Edward Lenox</rs>
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good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly<lb></lb>
chosen, who being then and there duly 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="WACWIC65230_n6-14">Samuel Burton</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n6-15">Samuel Burton</rs>
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not being<lb></lb>
of sound Mind Memory and Understanding but Lunatick and distracted<lb></lb>
on the Thirty first day of December in the Year aforesaid at the said <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65230_geo9">Parish<lb></lb>
of St. James</rs>
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within the Liberty and County aforesaid, a certain Piece of small<lb></lb>
Cord unto a certain Wooden Ladder standing in the Shop of him the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n6-16">Samuel Burton</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65230_geo10">St. James's Market</rs>
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in the said Parish Liberty and County and the other<lb></lb>
end thereof about his own neck did fix tie and fasten and therewith did then<lb></lb>
and these hang suffocate and strangle himself of which said hanging<lb></lb>
suffocation and strangling he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n6-17">Samuel Burton</rs>
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then and there died.<lb></lb>
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n6-18">Samuel Burton</rs>
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not being of sound Mind Memory and understanding<lb></lb>
but Lunatick and distracted in manner and by the means aforesaid did<lb></lb>
hill himself</p>
<p n="7">In Witness whereof as well the said<lb></lb>
Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n7-1">John Nimms</rs>
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Foreman of the said Jurors on the<lb></lb>
behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows in their presence have<lb></lb>
to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day Year and Place<lb></lb>
abovementioned.</p>
<p n="8"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n8-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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Cononer</p>
<p n="9"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n9-1">Jno Nimmo</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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