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<p n="1545"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of Westmister<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1228">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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}<lb></lb>
to wit.</note>
<lb></lb>
An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King, at the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1229">Saint James<lb></lb>
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1230">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65213_date295">Thirtieth day of July</rs>
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in the Thirteenth Year<lb></lb>
of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great-Britain,<lb></lb>
France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1545-1">Thomas Prickard</rs>
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, Gentleman,<lb></lb>
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="WACWIC65213_n1545-2">Elizabeth Cooper</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1545-3">Walter Strafford</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1545-4">Thomas Sims</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1545-5">James Thomas</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1545-56">Edward Smyth</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1545-6">Andrew hardy</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1545-89">William Hurdleston</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1545-7">William Blake</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1545-87">Edward Quincey</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1545-8">Samuel Russell</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1545-9">Robert Hopwood</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1545-23">John Kilk</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1545-10">Joseph Dancox</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1545-29">Robert Duccarell</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1545-72">Thomas Hoberne</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1545-11">John Jones</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1545-12">Edward Davis</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1545-32">Benjamin Radcliff</rs>
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<lb></lb>
good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly<lb></lb>
chosen, who being then and there duly sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the<lb></lb>
King, when, how, and by what Means the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1545-13">Elizabeth Cooper</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
h er Death, do upon their Oath say That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1545-14">Elizabeth Cooper</rs>
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not being of Sound Mind<lb></lb>
Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted on the Twenty ninth day of July in the Year aforesaid<lb></lb>
at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid one end of a certain peice of Cord unto an Iron<lb></lb>
Staple fastened into the Leiling in the Lodging Room or Apartment of her the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1545-15">Elizabeth Cooper</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
a House situate in little Peter Street in the said Parish Liberty and County, and the other end thereof about<lb></lb>
her own Neck did fix tye and fasten, and therewith did then and there hang suffocate and strangle<lb></lb>
herself, of which said Hanging, Suffocation, and Strangling she the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1545-16">Elizabeth Cooper</rs>
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then<lb></lb>
and there Died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1545-17">Elizabeth Cooper</rs>
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not being of sound Mined Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and Distracted in<lb></lb>
manner and by the means aforesaid did Kill herself. In Witness whereof as well the said<lb></lb>
Coroner as the Foreman of the Jurors aforesaid on behalf of himself and the rest of the said Jurors<lb></lb>
have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day Year and at the Place abovementioned.</p>
<p n="1546"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1546-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65213_occ363">Coroner</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="1547">Walter StraffordForeman</p>
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