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<p n="143"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo184">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo185">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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.}<lb></lb>
to wit.</note>
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<p n="144">An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King at <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo186">Tothill Fields Bridewell</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo187">Parish of St. Margaret</rs>
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<lb></lb>
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo188">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo189">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the Twenty fifth day of January in the twenty sixth<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="WACWIC65226_n144-1">Thomas<lb></lb>
Prickard</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65226_occ141">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="WACWIC65226_n144-2">Charles Price</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65226_occ142">Prisoner</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon<lb></lb>
the Oath of <lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n144-3">Michael Castleden</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n144-4">Richard Hatch</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n144-5">Morris Mabley</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n144-6">James Reed</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n144-7">Jeremiah Church</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n144-8">John Davies</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n144-77">William Maund</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n144-9">William Whitworth</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n144-10">Thomas Edmunds</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n144-11">William King</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n144-12">Charles<lb></lb>
Carey</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n144-13">James Randall</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>
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n144-14">Charles Price</rs>
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not having the Fear<lb></lb>
of God before his Eyes but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the Devil<lb></lb>
on the Twenty fifth day of January in the Year aforesaid, with Force and Ann<lb></lb>
at the Parish aforesaid, within the Liberty and County aforesaid, in and upon<lb></lb>
himself in the Peace of God and of our said Sovereign Lord the King then and there<lb></lb>
being Feloniously wilfully and of his Matice aforethought did make an Assault and<lb></lb>
that the said Charles<obscured></obscured>
One End of a certain price of small Cord, of no Value<lb></lb>
unto certain Gimlets and Brass Screws then and there fixed in the Wainscot of a Room<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo190">Tothill Fields Bridewell</rs>
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(wherein the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n144-15">Charles Price</rs>
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was then and there<lb></lb>
Prisoner in Custody Charged with Felony) and the other End thereof about his own<lb></lb>
Neck did Fix tye and fasten and therewith did then and there hang Suffocate and<lb></lb>
strangle himself of which said hanging Suffocation and Strangling he<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n144-16">Charles Price</rs>
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did then and there die. And so the Jurors<lb></lb>
aforesaid, upon their Oath aforesaid, do say,That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n144-17">Charles<lb></lb>
Price</rs>
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in manner and by the Means aforesaid, Feloniously wilfully and of<lb></lb>
his Malice aforethought did kill and murder himself against the Peace of<lb></lb>
our said Lord the King his Crown and Dignity and that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n144-18">Charles Price</rs>
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<lb></lb>
at the Time of the committing the Felony and Murder aforesaid had no goods or<lb></lb>
Chattels Lands or Tenements within the said Liberty or elsewhere to the<lb></lb>
knowledge of the said Jurors.</p>
<p n="145">In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner<lb></lb>
as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n145-1">Michael Castleden</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65226_occ143">Foreman</rs>
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of the said Jurors, on the behalf of<del>his</del>
<lb></lb>
himself and the rest of his Fellows in their Presence, have to this Inquisition<lb></lb>
set their Hands and Seals the Day Year and Place abovementioned</p>
<p n="146"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n146-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65226_occ144">Coroner</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="147"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n147-290">Michl: Castleden</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65226_occ145">Foreman</rs>
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