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<p n="61"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65229_geo66">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65229_geo67">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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to wit.</note>
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An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King at the Parish of Saint Margaret<lb></lb>
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65229_geo68">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65229_geo69">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the sixth day of January in the twenty ninth<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="WACWIC65229_n61-1">Thomas<lb></lb>
Prickard</rs>
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, Gentleman, Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on<lb></lb>
View of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65229_n61-2">George Matthews</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon<lb></lb>
the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65229_n61-3">William Oliver</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65229_n61-19">Richard Sarrah</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65229_n61-4">John Burrows</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65229_n61-5">William Wilson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65229_n61-6">Stephen Hutson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65229_n61-7">John Herrick</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65229_n61-20">Robert<lb></lb>
Pettilow</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65229_n61-8">Benjamin Rutland</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65229_n61-9">William Brown</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65229_n61-10">Samuel Milliner</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65229_n61-11">John Fife</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65229_n61-12">John Watson</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="WACWIC65229_n61-13">George Matthew</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
h is Death, do upon their Oath say That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65229_n61-14">George Matthew</rs>
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not being<lb></lb>
of sound Mind Memory and Understanding but Lunatick and<lb></lb>
distracted on the fourth day of January in the year aforesaid one End<lb></lb>
of a certain Piece of Cord unto an Iron Staple fastened in one of the<lb></lb>
wooden Joysts in the Ceiling in the Lodging Room or Apartment of<lb></lb>
him the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65229_n61-15">George Matthews</rs>
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in the Dwelling House of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65229_n61-16">Walter Cross</rs>
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<lb></lb>
situate and being in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65229_geo70">Angel Court</rs>
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in the said Parish of St. Margaret<lb></lb>
within the Liberty and County aforesaid and the other and thereof about<lb></lb>
his own neck did fit tie and fasten and therewith did then and there<lb></lb>
hang suffocate and strangle himself of Which did then and there<lb></lb>
Suffocation and strangling he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65229_n61-17">George Matthews</rs>
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then and<lb></lb>
there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid<lb></lb>
do say that said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65229_n61-18">George Matthews</rs>
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Ibeing of sound Mind<lb></lb>
Memory and Understanding but Lunatick and distracted in manner<lb></lb>
and by the means aforesaid did kill himself</p>
<p n="62">In Witness whereof as well the<lb></lb>
said Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65229_n62-1">William Oliver</rs>
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Foreman of the said Jurors<lb></lb>
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<lb></lb>
and Place abovementioned.</p>
<p n="63"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65229_n63-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65229_occ20">Coroner</rs>
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<p n="64">William OliverForeman</p>
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