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<p n="322"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65225_geo369">City of Liberty<lb></lb>
of Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65225_geo370">County of <lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit.</note>
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<p n="323">An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King, at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65225_geo371">Parish of Saint Paul Covent Garden</rs>
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<lb></lb>
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65225_geo372">Collegiate Church of St. Peter</rs>
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, <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65225_geo373">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65225_geo374">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the Twelfth day of March in the twenty Fifth <lb></lb>
Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, of <lb></lb>
Great-Britain, France and Ireland, King Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n323-1">Thomas <lb></lb>
Prickard</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65225_occ208">Gentleman, Coroner</rs>
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of our said Lord the king for the said City and Liberty, on <lb></lb>
View of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n323-2">Mary Norman</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon<lb></lb>
the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n323-3">Richard Christmas</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n323-4">John French</rs>
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, Robert<lb></lb>
Partidge, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n323-5">John Henry Rigg</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n323-893">Theophilus Tuff</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n323-6">Richard<lb></lb>
Ovey</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n323-7">Andrew Schabner</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n323-8">Edward Darley</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n323-9">James Sedgwick</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n323-10">Samuel Barlow</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n323-11">Thomas Wilkinson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n323-12">John Tilby</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n323-13">Robert Timewell</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="WACWIC65225_n323-14">Mary Norman</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n323-15">Mary Norman</rs>
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, not<lb></lb>
being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding but lunatick<lb></lb>
and distracted on the fifth day of March in the Year aforesaid<lb></lb>
at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid,<lb></lb>
with a certain Knife made of Iron and Steel which she the said<lb></lb>
Mary norman then and there had and held in her Right Hand<lb></lb>
the Throat or Guiller<obscured></obscured>
the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n323-17">Mary Norman</rs>
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did<lb></lb>
then and there strike Stab and penetrate, thereby them<lb></lb>
and there giving unto herself with the Knife aforesaid in<lb></lb>
and upon the Throat or Gullet of her the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n323-18">mary Norman</rs>
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one<lb></lb>
Mortal Wound of the length of Three Inches and of the depth of<lb></lb>
one Inch, of which said mortal wound she the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n323-19">Mary Norman</rs>
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<lb></lb>
from the said fifth day of March in the Year aforesaid until the Eleventh<lb></lb>
day of the same Month in the same Year at the Parish and in the Liberty<lb></lb>
and County aforesaid did languish and live, on which said Eleventh<lb></lb>
day of March she the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n323-20">mary Norman</rs>
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of the mortal Wound aforesaid<lb></lb>
did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid Upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n323-21">Mary Norman</rs>
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not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding but<lb></lb>
lunatick, and distracted in Planner aforesaid did kill herself. In Witness<lb></lb>
wehreof as well the said Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n323-22">Richard Christmas</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65225_occ209">Foreman</rs>
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<lb></lb>
of the said Jurors on the behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows in their presence<lb></lb>
have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day Year and Place abovewritten</p>
<p n="324"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n324-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65225_occ210">Coroner</rs>
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.<lb></lb>
Richd. Christmas<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Foremans</p>
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