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(To wit)}</note>
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AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Dwelling House<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2719-2">William Jacobs</rs>
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known by the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCOIC65102_geo2838">Sign of the City Road Coffee House</rs>
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in the Parish Parish of Saint Luke in the County of<lb></lb>
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, the <rs type="date" id="LMCOIC65102_date468">Twenty second 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_n2719-3">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_n2719-9">Enock Davis</rs>
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, Joseph Catherwood,<lb></lb>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2719-12">Charles Mowley</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2719-14">Davis Kill</rs>
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, Joseph Blanford, Tower Frances John<lb></lb>
Parup Joseph Barnett, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2719-17">John Gardner</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 George Pearch came to his<lb></lb>
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said George Pearch not being of Sound Mind Memory and understanding but<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMCOIC65102_occ668">Lunatic</rs>
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and Distracted on the Twenty first Day of April in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the County aforesaid one End of a Certain<lb></lb>
Piece of Hempen lord Called Halter of the Value of Two Pence fastened unto a beam in a Certain Hayloft over a low house Adjoining<lb></lb>
the Dwelling House of the said George Pearch there Situate and being And the other End thereof about his own Neck did fix tye and<lb></lb>
fasten and therewith did then and there hang Suffocate and Strangle himself of which said Hanging Suffocation and Strangling he the<lb></lb>
said George Pearch did then and there Instantly die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said George<lb></lb>
Pearch not being of Sound Mind Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and Distracted in Manner and by the Means aforesaid<lb></lb>
did kill himself</p>
<p n="2720"> IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2720-1">Robert Bryant</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<del>and</del>
Year and place first<lb></lb>
above written.</p>
<p n="2721"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n2721-1">Thos. Phillips</rs>
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Robt Bryant<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Foreman</p>
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