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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65204_geo584">County of Middlesex</rs>
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to wit.</note>
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<p n="475">An Inquisition Indented taken for Our Sovereign Lord<lb></lb>
the King at the Parish of Saint Jameswithin the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter<lb></lb>
of the Collegiate Church of St Peter <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65204_geo585">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65204_geo586">County of Middlesex</rs>
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the<lb></lb>
Fourth day of Mayin the fourth Year of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lord George<lb></lb>
the Third by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the<lb></lb>
Faith and so forth before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n475-1">Thomas Prickard</rs>
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Gentleman Coroner of Our said Lord the King<lb></lb>
for the Said City and Liberty On View of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n475-2">Thomas Clayton</rs>
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then and there<lb></lb>
lying Dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n475-3">Francis Flower</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n475-4">John Cooper</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n475-5">Francis White</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n475-6">William Frisby</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n475-7">William Xerxes</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n475-8">James Mitchel</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n475-9">Richard Jesson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n475-10">John Davis</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n475-11">David Stiles</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n475-12">John Fidler</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n475-13">Robert Allen</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n475-14">Joseph Strutt</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n475-24">John Sigris</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n475-15">Thomas Cristfield</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n475-16">Samuel Hunt</rs>
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& <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n475-17">Alexander Morrison</rs>
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, good and lawfull Men of the said Liberty duly<lb></lb>
Chosen who being then and there duly Sworn and Charged to inquire for Our said Lord the King<lb></lb>
when. how, and by what Means the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n475-18">Thomas Clayton</rs>
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Came to his Death do upon<lb></lb>
Their Oath say That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n475-19">Thomas Clayton</rs>
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, not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding<lb></lb>
but lunatick and and distracted, on the third day of May in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish aforesaid,<lb></lb>
within the Liberty and County aforesaid, one End of a certain piece of small Cord unto an Iron barr<lb></lb>
over the Area or Passage in the back part of the Dwelling House of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n475-20">Thomas Gunston</rs>
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situate<lb></lb>
and being in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65204_geo587">Jermyn Street</rs>
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in the said Parish Liberty and County, and the other End thereof<lb></lb>
about his own Neck, did fix, tye, and fasten, and therewith did then and there hang, suffocate and<lb></lb>
strangle himself, of which said Hanging Suffocation and Strangling he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n475-21">Thomas Clayton</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_n475-22">Thomas Clayton</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 said<lb></lb>
Coroner, as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n475-23">Francis Flower</rs>
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Foreman of the said Jurors, on behalf of himself and thereof<lb></lb>
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="476"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n476-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65204_occ180">Coroner</rs>
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<p n="477"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n477-1">Fras. Flower</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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