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<p n="2681"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMCOIC65102_geo2801">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_geo2802">Saint Paul Shadwell</rs>
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in the County of<lb></lb>
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, the <rs type="date" id="LMCOIC65102_date462">Seventh Day of April 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_n2681-2">Thomas Phillips</rs>
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<del>Esquire</del>
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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_n2681-3">Thomas Grafton</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2681-4">Christopher Dix</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2681-5">Alexander Adams</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2681-6">Christian Awe</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2681-7">James Roberts</rs>
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, John<lb></lb>
Pounceby, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2681-8">John Hale</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2681-9">Robert Maberley</rs>
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. <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2681-10">Thomas Drown</rs>
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William Mickerson <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2681-11">George<lb></lb>
Hunter</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2681-12">William Hastings</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2681-13">Thomas Sherman</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2681-14">William Wilkins</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2681-15">Thomas Arnold</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_n2681-16">Thomas Grafton</rs>
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came to his<lb></lb>
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2681-17">Thomas Grafton</rs>
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not being of sound mind<lb></lb>
memory and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted on the seventh Day of April in the<lb></lb>
Year aforesaid<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
One End of a small Cord to a Nail fixed in the Wainscot in his<lb></lb>
Apartment in the House of <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2681-18">Samuel Day</rs>
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in the Parish and County aforesaid and the other End<lb></lb>
thereof about his own, neck did fix tye and fasten and therewith did then and there hang suffocate<lb></lb>
and strangle himself Of which said hanging Suffocation and Strangling he the said Thomas<lb></lb>
Grafton then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2681-19">Thomas Grafton</rs>
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not being of sound mind memory and Understanding but Lunatic and<lb></lb>
distracted in manner and by the means aforesaid did kill himself</p>
<p n="2682"> IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2682-1">Christopher Dix</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="2683"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2683-1">Thos. Phillips</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMCOIC65102_occ644">Coroner</rs>
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Christpr. Dix<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Foreman</p>
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