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An Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at The Parish of
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21st Year of the
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Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the third, by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France and Ireland the KING, Defender of
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the Faith, Etc. before
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KING, for the said County, on view of the body of
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then and there lying dead, upon the oath of Peter Atherton,
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William Season
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good and lawful Men of the said County duly chosen at by Law required,
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and who being then and there duly sworn
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and charged to enquire for our said Lord the KING, when, how, and by what means the said
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came to h is Death, Do upon their Oath say, That the said William
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Hudson not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding but Lunatic
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and distracted on the second Day of January in the Year aforesaid One
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End of a Piece of Tape to the Curtain Rod of the Bed in the Lodging Room
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or Apartment of him the said
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of the Parish aforesaid and the other End thereof about his own Neck
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Did fix tye and fasten And therewith did then and there hang suffocate
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and strangle himself Of which said Hanging, Suffocation and Strangling
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he the said
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aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said William
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Hudson Out being of sound Mind, Memory and Understanding but
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In Witness whereof, as well as the said Coroner, as the said
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the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows, in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their
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Hands and Seals the Day and Year first abovementioned
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E: Umfreville
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Coronr.
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