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(To wit)} </note>
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AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCOIC65102_geo2743">Saint Luke</rs>
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in the County of<lb></lb>
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, the <rs type="date" id="LMCOIC65102_date447">seventeenth Day of February 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_n2638-2">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>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2638-3">Sarah Waggstaff</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2638-4">Thomas Shuter</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2638-5">William Hobart</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2638-8">Francis Rogers</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2638-10">John Taplin</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2638-11">William Hammond</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2638-12">William Hall</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2638-13">Luke Davis</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2638-14">Edward Ewer</rs>
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Joseph<lb></lb>
Hawes Robert Hornes <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2638-16">William Holmes</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2638-17">John Ford</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2638-19">Thomas Cave</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2638-20">Edward Dunfee George</rs>
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Wainwright and <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2638-21">Robert Jones</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_n2638-22">Sarah Waggstaffe</rs>
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came to her<lb></lb>
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2638-23">Sarah Wagstaff</rs>
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not being of sound Mind<lb></lb>
Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted on the Fourteenth Day of February in the<lb></lb>
Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the County aforesaid a great Quantity (to wit) Half an Ounce<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2638-24">White Arsenic</rs>
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being a deadly Poison into a certain Quantity of Water led then and there put and<lb></lb>
mix And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2638-25">White Arsenic</rs>
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so put and mixt as aforesaid In the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2638-26">Sarah Wagstaff</rs>
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not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted did then and there<lb></lb>
take drink and swallow down By Means whereof she the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2638-27">Sarah Wagstaff</rs>
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became then and there<lb></lb>
sick and distempered in her Body And of the Poison aforesaid and of the Sickness and distemper<lb></lb>
thereby occasioned she the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2638-28">Sarah Wagstaff</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_n2638-29">Sarah Wagstaff</rs>
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not bing of sound Mind Memory<lb></lb>
and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted in Manner and by the Means aforesaid did kill herself<lb></lb>
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<p n="2639"> IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2639-1">Thomas Shuter</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="2640"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2640-1">Thos. Phillips</rs>
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Thos Shuter<figure rend="mark"></figure>
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Foreman</p>
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