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<p n="2669"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMCOIC65102_geo2784">MIDDLESEX</rs>
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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_geo2785">Saint Leonard Shoreditch</rs>
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in the County of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCOIC65102_geo2786">Middlesex</rs>
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, the <rs type="date" id="LMCOIC65102_date458">Twentieth Day of March 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_n2669-2">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_n2669-3">Elizabeth Simpson</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2669-4">Joseph Brown</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2669-5">Thomas Bown</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2669-6">Henry Semmelman</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2669-7">James Arnold</rs>
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, Sebastian Wise, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2669-8">Benjamin<lb></lb>
Bradberry</rs>
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, Daniel Bishop, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2669-9">William Wills</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2669-10">John Monk</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2669-11">Stephen Rise</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2669-12">Henry Page</rs>
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, Thomas<lb></lb>
Merritt, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2669-13">George Wright</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2669-14">John Francis</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2669-15">John Shepherd</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2669-16">Thomas Secker</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2669-17">Nicholas Gordelier</rs>
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, Daniel<lb></lb>
Delacourt, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2669-18">John Knight</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2669-20">John Towell</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2669-21">Jarvis Boucher</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_n2669-22">Elizabeth Simpson</rs>
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came to her<lb></lb>
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2669-23">John Simpson</rs>
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late of the Parish aforesaid in the County<lb></lb>
aforesaid <rs type="occupation" id="LMCOIC65102_occ638">Labourer</rs>
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not having the Fear of God before his Eyes but being moved and seduced by<lb></lb>
the Instigation of the Devil on the seventeenth Day of March in the Year aforesaid with Force and<lb></lb>
Arms at the Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid in and upon the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2669-24">Elizabeth Simpson</rs>
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his late wife in the Peace of God and of our said Lord the King then and there being feloniously<lb></lb>
wilfully and of his malice aforethought did make an Assault And That the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2669-25">John Simpson</rs>
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with a certain Penknife made of Iron and Steel of the Value of six pence which he the said John<lb></lb>
Simpson then and there had and held in his Right Hand her the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2669-27">Elizabeth Simpson</rs>
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in and<lb></lb>
upon the Left Side of the Body of her the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2669-28">Elizabeth Simpson</rs>
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did then and there feloniously wilfully and of his malice aforethought strike stab and<lb></lb>
penetrate And that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2669-29">John Simpson</rs>
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did then and there give unto the said Elizabeth<lb></lb>
Simpson with the Penknife aforesaid in and upon the said Left Side of her the said Elizabeth<lb></lb>
Simpson one Mortal Wound of the Breadth of One Quarter of an Inch which penetrated the Lungs<lb></lb>
of her the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2669-33">Elizabeth Simpson</rs>
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of which said mortal wound she the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2669-34">Elizabeth Simpson</rs>
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from<lb></lb>
the said seventeenth Day of March in the year aforesaid untill the Eighteenth day of the same month on<lb></lb>
the same Year at the Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid did languish and languishing did live On which<lb></lb>
said Eighteenth Day of march in the Year aforesaid she the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2669-35">Elizabeth Simpson</rs>
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at the Parish aforesaid<lb></lb>
in the County aforesaid of the mortal wound aforesaid did die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath<lb></lb>
aforesaid do say That the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2669-36">John Simpson</rs>
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her the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2669-37">Elizabeth Simpson</rs>
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in manner and by the means<lb></lb>
aforesaid feloniously wilfully and of his malice aforethought did kill and murder against the peace of<lb></lb>
our said Lord the King his Crown and Dignity</p>
<p n="2670"> IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2670-1">Joseph Brown</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="2671"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2671-1">Thos. Phillips</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMCOIC65102_occ639">Coroner</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMCOIC65102_geo2787">Joseph Brown</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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