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An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo1509">London</rs>
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(that<lb></lb>
is to say) at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo1510">parish of Saint Botolph aldersgate</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo1511">Ward of Aldersgate</rs>
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without in London<lb></lb>
aforesaid on the <rs type="date" id="LMCLIC65010_date122">sixth day of November in the thirty eighth year of the reign of our Sovereign<lb></lb>
Lord George the third King of Great Britain and so forth</rs>
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before <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1576-2">Thomas Shelton</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65010_occ733">Coroner</rs>
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of our said Lord the King for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo1512">City of London</rs>
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and Borough of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo1513">Southwark</rs>
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on view of<lb></lb>
the body of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1576-3">Theodosia Ouder</rs>
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now here lying dead by the oath of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1576-4">William Newcomb</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1576-27">Philip<lb></lb>
Payne</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1576-5">John Towns</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1576-6">John Hancock</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1576-8">George Thorne</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1576-9">Robert Mcwood Witheridge</rs>
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, Martin<lb></lb>
Free, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1576-14">William Turner</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1576-17">William Trickett</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1576-18">Thomas Brough</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
and <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1576-19">Joseph Powley</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65010_occ734">good</rs>
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and lawful men of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo1514">City of London</rs>
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aforesaid who being<lb></lb>
now here duly chosen sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord the King when<lb></lb>
how and in what manner the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1576-20">Theodosia Ouder</rs>
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came to her death say upon their<lb></lb>
oath that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1576-21">Theodosia Ouder</rs>
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not being of sound mind memory and understanding<lb></lb>
but lunatic and distracted on the third day of November in the year aforesaid one end<lb></lb>
of a certain Towel unto and about the railing of a certain bedstead in a certain room<lb></lb>
in the dwelling house of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1576-22">John Scott</rs>
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there situate and the other end of the said Towel<lb></lb>
round and about her own neck did then and there fix tye and fasten by means<lb></lb>
whereof the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1576-23">Theodosia Ouder</rs>
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did then and there hang strangle and suffocate<lb></lb>
herself of which said hanging strangling and suffocation the said<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
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did then<lb></lb>
and there die.-And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1576-25">Theodosia Ouder</rs>
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not being of sound mind memory and understanding but<lb></lb>
lunatic and distracted did hang and kill herself-In Witness whereof as well<lb></lb>
the said Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1576-26">William Newcomb</rs>
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the <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65010_occ735">foreman</rs>
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of the said Jurors on<lb></lb>
behalf of himself and the rest of his fellows in their presence have to this Inquisition<lb></lb>
set their hands and seals the day year and place first abovewritten<lb></lb>
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<p n="1577"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1577-1">Wm Newcomb</rs>
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