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(To wit)}</note>
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AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the Hamlet<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCOIC65102_geo2624">Ratcliff</rs>
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in the Parish of Saint Dunstan Stepney in the County of<lb></lb>
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, the <rs type="date" id="LMCOIC65102_date420">ninth Day of December in the twenty sixth Year of the Reign of<lb></lb>
our sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third</rs>
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, by the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France, and<lb></lb>
Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2542-2">Thomas Phillips</rs>
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one of the Coroners of our said Lord the King for the said County, on View of the Body of <lb></lb>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <lb></lb>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2542-5">George Penny</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2542-10">Isaac Easteridge</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2542-11">William Pettit</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2542-12">John Blake</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2542-13">William Hobbs</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2542-14">John Taylor</rs>
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good and lawful Men of the said County, duly chosen, and who being then and there duly<lb></lb>
sworn and charged to inquire, for our said Lord the King, when, how, and by what Means, the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2542-16">Robert Hunt</rs>
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came to his<lb></lb>
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2542-17">Robert Hunt</rs>
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not being of sound, Mind<lb></lb>
Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted on the Eighth Day of December in the Year<lb></lb>
aforesaid One End of a Piece of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCOIC65102_geo2626">Spun Yarn</rs>
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to a Bed post in the Lodging Room or Apartment of<lb></lb>
him the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2542-18">Robert Hunt</rs>
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situate in <rs type="placeName" id="LMCOIC65102_geo2627">Queen Street</rs>
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in the Hamlet aforesaid in the Parish and<lb></lb>
County aforesaid and the other End thereof about his own Neck did fix, tye and fasten and therewith<lb></lb>
did then and there hang suffocate and strangle himself. Of which said hanging Suffocation and<lb></lb>
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he the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2542-19">Robert Hunt</rs>
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then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon<lb></lb>
their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2542-20">Robert Hunt</rs>
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not being of sound Mind Memory<lb></lb>
and understanding but Lunatic and distracted in manner and by the Means aforesaid did kill<lb></lb>
himself</p>
<p n="2543"> IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2543-1">James Barnfield</rs>
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the Foreman of the said Jurors, on the Behalf of himself and the Rest of his said Fellows, in<lb></lb>
their Presence, have, to this Inquisition, set their Hands and Seals, the Day and Year first<lb></lb>
above written.</p>
<p n="2544"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2544-1">Thos. Phillips</rs>
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<p n="2545"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2545-1">James Barnfield</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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