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<p n="994"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo971">Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo972">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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to wit.</note>
<lb></lb>
In Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King, at the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo973">Saint Margaret<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="WACWIC65214_geo974">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65214_date189">Twenty fifth day of June</rs>
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in the Fourteenth 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="WACWIC65214_n994-1">Thomas Prickard</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65214_occ317">Gentleman</rs>
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,<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="WACWIC65214_n994-2">John Parke</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n994-3">Joseph<lb></lb>
Ashmore</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n994-4">Richard Williams</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n994-5">John Smith</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n994-6">Samuel Ray</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n994-7">Thomas Gladwin</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n994-8">William<lb></lb>
Crandell</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n994-9">Christopher Hawkes</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n994-10">John Emerson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n994-243">Humphry Wheelright</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n994-11">Joseph Smith</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n994-12">John<lb></lb>
Morrison</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n994-23">Jarvis Littlefear</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 enquire for our said Lord the<lb></lb>
King, when, how, and by what Means the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n994-13">John Parke</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n994-14">John Parke</rs>
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, not being of sound<lb></lb>
Mind Memory and Understanding but lunatick and distracted<lb></lb>
on the Twenty fourth day of June in the Year aforesaid one End of a certain<lb></lb>
Piece of Worsted Lace unto one of the Wooden Rafters of a Shed<lb></lb>
adjoining to the dwelling House of the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n994-15">John Parke</rs>
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situate in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo975">Blue Anchor Yard</rs>
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in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and<lb></lb>
County aforesaid, and the other End thereof about his own Neck<lb></lb>
did fix tye and fasten, and therewith did then and there hang<lb></lb>
Suffocate and strangle himself, of which said Hanging Suffocation<lb></lb>
and Strangling he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n994-16">John Parke</rs>
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then and there died.<lb></lb>
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say,<lb></lb>
that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n994-17">John Parke</rs>
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, in Manner and by the Means aforesaid,<lb></lb>
came to his Death, not being of sound Mind Memory and<lb></lb>
Understanding but lunatick and distracted as aforesaid. In Witness<lb></lb>
whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n994-18">Joseph Ashmore</rs>
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Foreman<lb></lb>
of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows<lb></lb>
in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals,<lb></lb>
the Day Year and Place first above written</p>
<p n="995"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n995-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65214_occ318">Coroner</rs>
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</p>
<p n="996"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n996-25">Jos. Ashmore</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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