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<p n="1452"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65205_geo1367">City and Liberty of Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65205_geo1368">County of Middlesex</rs>
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to wit,</note>
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<p n="1453">An Inquisition Indented taken for Our Sovereign Lord the King<lb></lb>
at the Parish of St. Margaret in the City of Westmr. within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of<lb></lb>
the Collegiate Church of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65205_geo1369">St. Peter Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65205_geo1370">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the thirteenth<lb></lb>
Day of Augustin the Fifth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third<lb></lb>
by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Saith<lb></lb>
and so forth before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n1453-1">Thomas Prichard</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="WACWIC65205_n1453-16">Rebecca Carpenter</rs>
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then and there lying<lb></lb>
Dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n1453-2">Edward Harris</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n1453-3">Ernest Leslie</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n1453-4">Thomas Hutchins</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n1453-5">John Nutting</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n1453-6">James<lb></lb>
Franklin</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n1453-7">John Price</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n1453-8">Joseph Wedgborough</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n1453-9">Joseph Woolford</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n1453-10">Joseph Moore</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n1453-11">Thomas Sutton</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n1453-12">Abraham Longstaff</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n1453-13">John Stowers</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n1453-14">John Burgis</rs>
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, good and lawful 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. an by what Means the said Rebecca Carpenter came to her Death, do upon<lb></lb>
their Oathsay, That the said Rebecca Carpenter, not being of sound Mind Memory and<lb></lb>
Understanding, but lunatick and distracted, on the Twelfth day of August in the Year<lb></lb>
aforesaid, at the Parish aforesaid within the City Liberty and County aforesaid, into<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65205_geo1371">River Thames</rs>
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, to wit, at <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65205_geo1372">Westminster Bridge</rs>
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, there did cast and throw herself,<lb></lb>
by means of which said Casting and Thowing, she the said Rebecca Carpenter, in the Water<lb></lb>
of the said River, was then and there Suffocated and Drowned, of which said Suffocation and<lb></lb>
Drowning she the said Rebecca Carpenter then and there instantly died. And so the Jurors.<lb></lb>
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Rebecca Carpenter in Manner and<lb></lb>
by the Means aforesaid, not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick<lb></lb>
and distracted, did drown and hill herself. In Witness where of as well the said<lb></lb>
Coroner, as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n1453-15">Edward Harris</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<lb></lb>
Hands and Seals, the Day Year and Place first above written</p>
<p n="1454"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n1454-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65205_occ484">Coroner</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="1455">Edwd Harris.<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Foreman</p>
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