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<p n="1374"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65236_geo909">Westminster</rs>
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In the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65236_geo910">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 House of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65236_n1374-9">James Walmeslay</rs>
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Sign of the Green Man in Green Street <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65236_geo911">Grosvenor Square</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65236_geo912">Parish of St. George</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65236_geo913">Hanover Square</rs>
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within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65236_geo914">St. Peter, Westminster</rs>
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, in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65236_geo915">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the fourth day of July 1796<lb></lb>
in the thirty sixth 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,<lb></lb>
and so forth, before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65236_n1374-1">Anthony Gell</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65236_occ490">Esq</rs>
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. 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="WACWIC65236_n1374-2">Anne Smith</rs>
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then and there<lb></lb>
lying dead, upon the Oath of the several Juror whose Names are here under written, and<lb></lb>
Seuls affixed, good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly chosen, who being then and<lb></lb>
there duly sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the King, when, how, and by<lb></lb>
what Means the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65236_n1374-3">Anne Smith</rs>
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came to her Death, do upon<lb></lb>
their Oath say that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65236_n1374-4">Anne Smith</rs>
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not being of Sound Mind Memory<lb></lb>
and Understanding but lunatic and distracted on the said fourth day of<lb></lb>
July in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty aforesaid<lb></lb>
one and of a certain Garter unto the Window Rod in the Lodging Room<lb></lb>
of her the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65236_n1374-5">Anne Smith</rs>
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in the Dwelling House of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65236_n1374-6">John Reynolds</rs>
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situate in Green Street aforesaid and the other end there of about her<lb></lb>
own Neck did fix, tye and fasten and there with did then and there<lb></lb>
hang suffocate and strangle herself, of which said Hanging<lb></lb>
Suffocation and Strangling she the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65236_n1374-7">Anne Smith</rs>
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then and<lb></lb>
there instantly died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon<lb></lb>
their Oath aforesaid do say that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65236_n1374-8">Anne<lb></lb>
Smith</rs>
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not being of sound Mind Memory and<lb></lb>
Understanding but lunatic and distracted<lb></lb>
in manner and by the Means aforesaid<lb></lb>
did Kill herself</p>
<p n="1375"> In WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Jurors, have to this Inquisition<lb></lb>
set their Hands and Seals the Day, Year, and Place first above written.</p>
<p n="1376"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65236_n1376-1">Anthy. Gell</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65236_occ491">Coroner</rs>
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<p n="1377"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65236_n1377-1">Benjamin Whipps</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65236_n1377-2">Thos. Willment</rs>
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J Skelton<figure rend="mark"></figure>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65236_n1377-5">Wm. Carpenter</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65236_n1377-3">John Currie</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65236_n1377-4">George Westcoat</rs>
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<p n="1378"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65236_n1378-1">Charles Brown</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65236_n1378-2">Tho Hawkins</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65236_n1378-3">Richd Timberlake</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65236_n1378-4">Joseph Eldridge</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65236_n1378-5">Wheatley Vaughan</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65236_n1378-6">Thomas Morris</rs>
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