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<p n="1117"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">City and Liberty of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65202_geo960">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65202_geo961">County of Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit</note>
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An Inquisition Indented taken for Our Sovereign Lord the King<lb></lb>
at the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65202_geo962">Saint Jameswithin the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the<lb></lb>
Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster</rs>
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, in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65202_geo963">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65202_date215">twenty ninth day of November</rs>
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in the Third-Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third by the grace of God of Great<lb></lb>
Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so forth, before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1117-1">Thomas Prickard</rs>
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Gentleman, Coroner of our said Lord the King, for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1117-2">Christopher Oliphant</rs>
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then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1117-3">Thomas Burnett</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1117-5">Edward Lee</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1117-8">William Thompson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1117-77">Thomas Rapier</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1117-9">John Underwood</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1117-10">William Sheppard</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1117-11">Adam Nelson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1117-12">Samuel Crowther</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1117-13">William Keith</rs>
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, good and Lawfull 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_n1117-15">Christopher Oliphant</rs>
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came to his Death<lb></lb>
Do upon their Oath, say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1117-16">Christopher Oliphant</rs>
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not being of sound Mind Memory<lb></lb>
and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted, on the Twenty seventh day of November in<lb></lb>
the Year aforesaid, at the Parish aforesaid in the Liberty and County aforesaid, one End of a<lb></lb>
certain Linnen Handkerchief unto a large Leaden Pipe fastened with Hold fasts to the Wall, in<lb></lb>
a Cellar in the dwelling House of William Ludbey, situate and being in the Parish Liberty<lb></lb>
and (County aforesaid, and the other End thereof about four Week, did Six tye and <lb></lb>
Fasten, and therewith did then and there hang, suffocate, and strangle himself; of which said<lb></lb>
Hanging, Suffocation and Strangling He the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1117-17">Christopher Oliphant</rs>
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then and there Died<lb></lb>
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid, de say, that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1117-18">Christopher<lb></lb>
Oliphant</rs>
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not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted<lb></lb>
in Manner and by the Means aforesaid, did Kill himself. In Witness whereof as well the<lb></lb>
said Coroner, as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1117-19">Thomas Burnett</rs>
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Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself<lb></lb>
and the rest of his said Fellows, in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals<lb></lb>
the Day Year and Place first abovementioned.</p>
<p n="1118"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1118-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<p n="1119"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1119-78">Thos. Burnett</rs>
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Forman</p>
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