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of Westmister
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An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
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of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great-Britain,
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France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before
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Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
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Thomas Sims
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Edward Quincey
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Robert Hopwood
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John Kilk
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Joseph Dancox
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Robert Duccarell
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Thomas Hoberne
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John Jones
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Edward Davis
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good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
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chosen, who being then and there duly sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the
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King, when, how, and by what Means the said
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Elizabeth Cooper
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came to
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h er Death, do upon their Oath say That the said
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Elizabeth Cooper
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not being of Sound Mind
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Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted on the Twenty ninth day of July in the Year aforesaid
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at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid one end of a certain peice of Cord unto an Iron
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Staple fastened into the Leiling in the Lodging Room or Apartment of her the said
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Elizabeth Cooper
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in
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a House situate in little Peter Street in the said Parish Liberty and County, and the other end thereof about
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her own Neck did fix tye and fasten, and therewith did then and there hang suffocate and strangle
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herself, of which said Hanging, Suffocation, and Strangling she the said
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Elizabeth Cooper
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then
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and there Died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said
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not being of sound Mined Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and Distracted in
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manner and by the means aforesaid did Kill herself. In Witness whereof as well the said
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Coroner as the Foreman of the Jurors aforesaid on behalf of himself and the rest of the said Jurors
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have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day Year and at the Place abovementioned.
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rs
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Coroner
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Walter StraffordForeman
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>
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