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<p n="403"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">City and Liberty of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65204_geo509">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65204_geo510">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 Parish of St. Margaret in the City of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65204_geo511">Westminster</rs>
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, within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of<lb></lb>
the Collegiate Church of St. Peter <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65204_geo512">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65204_geo513">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65204_date93">Twentieth day<lb></lb>
of April</rs>
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in the fourth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third by the grace<lb></lb>
of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so forth, before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n403-1">Thomas<lb></lb>
Prickard</rs>
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Gentleman Coroner of our said Lord the King, for the said City and Liberty, on view<lb></lb>
of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n403-2">Hannah Walker</rs>
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then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n403-3">Joseph<lb></lb>
Kettlewell</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n403-5">Samuel Vaughan</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n403-8">George Tullock</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n403-10">Richard Beckford</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n403-11">John Bunce</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n403-12">Thomas Lamb</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n403-14">John Graham</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n403-15">Joseph Woolford</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n403-16">Thomas Fisher</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n403-17">John Blatch</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n403-18">Henry Norris</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n403-19">William Mumby</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n403-29">Thomas Carder</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n403-20">John Crosley</rs>
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& <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n403-21">Anthony Satchell</rs>
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, good and lawfull Men of the said Liberty<lb></lb>
duly choosen, who being then and there duly Sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord<lb></lb>
the King, when, how, and by what Means the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n403-22">Hannah Walker</rs>
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came to her Death,<lb></lb>
do upon their Oath say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n403-23">Hannah Walker</rs>
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not being of sound Mind Memory and<lb></lb>
Understanding, but lunatick and distracted, on the <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65204_date94">Nineteenth day of April</rs>
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in the Year<lb></lb>
aforesaid, within the City and Liberty aforesaid, in the County aforesaid, one End of a certain <lb></lb>
piece of Linnen Tape, used for Apron Strings, over a Closet Door in the Lodging Room or<lb></lb>
Apartment of her the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n403-24">Hannah Walker</rs>
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in the Dwelling House of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n403-25">Thomas Davies</rs>
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situate<lb></lb>
and being in Orchard Street in the said Parish City Liberty and County, and the other End<lb></lb>
thereof about her own Neck, did fix tye and fasten, and therewith did then and there hang<lb></lb>
suffocate and strangle herself, of which said Hanging Suffocation and Strangling she the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n403-26">Hannah<lb></lb>
Walker</rs>
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then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n403-27">Hannah Walker</rs>
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, not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distract<lb></lb>
in manner and by the Means aforesaid, did kill herself. In Witness whereof as well the said<lb></lb>
Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n403-28">Joseph Kettlewell</rs>
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Foreman of the said Jurors on the behalf of himself and the<lb></lb>
rest of his said Fellows, in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals, the<lb></lb>
Day Year and Place first above written</p>
<p n="404"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n404-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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