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<p n="364"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">City and Liberty of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65202_geo316">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65202_geo317">County of Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit</note>
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An Inquisition indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65202_geo318">Parish of St. John the Evangelist</rs>
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in the City of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65202_geo319">Westminster</rs>
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, within the Liberty of the Dean<lb></lb>
and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter at <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65202_geo320">Westminster</rs>
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, the <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65202_date68">first day of May</rs>
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in the Second Year<lb></lb>
of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third 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="WACWIC65202_n364-1">Thomas Prickard</rs>
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Coroner of our said Lord<lb></lb>
the King for the said City and Liberty, on view of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n364-296">Elizabeth</rs>
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the Wife of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n364-2">James Beck</rs>
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then and there lying<lb></lb>
Dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n364-3">Walter Tyrrell</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n364-4">Thomas Owen</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n364-52">John Calcut</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n364-5">William Bartlet</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n364-83">Robert Pedinton</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n364-6">Thomas Gunter</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n364-29">William Rideout</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n364-7">William Gray</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n364-8">John Bamfield</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n364-9">John Bunney</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n364-10">Thomas Clarke</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n364-11">Richard Hollis</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n364-12">Edward Pagett</rs>
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good and lawful Men of the said<lb></lb>
Liberty duly chosen, and who being then and there duly Sworn and charged to inquire for our said<lb></lb>
Lord the King, when how and by what means the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n364-13">Elizabeth Beck</rs>
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came to her Death, Do upon<lb></lb>
then Oath say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n364-14">Elizabeth Beck</rs>
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not having the fear of God before her Eyes but being<lb></lb>
moved and seduced by the Instigation of the Devil, on the thirtieth day of April in the<lb></lb>
Year aforesaid with Force and Arms at the Parish aforesaid in the City and County<lb></lb>
aforesaid , in and upon herself feloniously wilfully and of her Malice fore thought did<lb></lb>
make an Assault, and that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n364-15">Elizabeth Beck</rs>
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one End of a certain Cord of no Value, to a<lb></lb>
certain Iron Holdfast in the Wall of the Lodging Room of her the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n364-16">Elizabeth Beck</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
dwelling House of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n364-28">William Peascod</rs>
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situate in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65202_geo321">Duck Lane</rs>
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in the Parish aforesaid in the City<lb></lb>
and County aforesaid, and the other End thereof about her Neck feloniously wilfully<lb></lb>
and of her malice fore thought did tye and fasten, And herself the said Elizabeth with the<lb></lb>
Cord aforesaid then and there feloniously wilfully and of her Malice fore thought did<lb></lb>
hangs suffocate choak and strangle, Of which said hanging suffocating choaking and strangling<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n364-17">Elizabeth Beck</rs>
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then and there instantly dyed; And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their<lb></lb>
Oath aforesaid do say, that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n364-18">Elizabeth Beck</rs>
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herself in manner and form aforesaid<lb></lb>
feloniously wilfully and of her malice fore thought did Kill and Murder, against the Peace of<lb></lb>
our said Lord the King his Crown and Dignity. In Witness whereof as well<lb></lb>
the said Coroner, as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n364-58">Walter Tyrrell</rs>
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Foreman of the said Jurors, on the<lb></lb>
behalf of himself and the rest of his said Fellows, in their presence, have to this<lb></lb>
Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day Year and Place abovementioned.</p>
<p n="365"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n365-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<p n="366"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n366-29">Walter Tyrrell</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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