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<p n="1326"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65230_geo1311">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65230_geo1312">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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to wit.</note>
<lb></lb>
An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King at the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65230_geo1313">Saint James</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="WACWIC65230_geo1314">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65230_geo1315">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the Fourteenth day of June in the Thirtieth<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="WACWIC65230_n1326-1">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="WACWIC65230_n1326-2">Mary Steel</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon<lb></lb>
the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n1326-3">Samuel Hawes</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n1326-4">John Barker</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n1326-5">Henry Hill</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n1326-6">Thomas<lb></lb>
Franklin</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n1326-7">Richard White</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n1326-8">Edward Hughes</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n1326-9">William Frazier</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n1326-10">Edward Witherington</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n1326-11">William Thompson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n1326-12">James Squibb</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n1326-13">Dixon<lb></lb>
Strachan</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n1326-14">Thomas Bandy</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n1326-24">William Langstaff</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n1326-15">Isaac Wright</rs>
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, Beece<lb></lb>
Morgan and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n1326-16">David Myers</rs>
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good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly<lb></lb>
chosen, who being then and there duly sworn charged to enquire for our said Lord the<lb></lb>
King, when, how, and by what Means the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n1326-17">Mary Steel</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n1326-18">Mary Steel</rs>
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not being<lb></lb>
of sound Mind Memory and Understanding but Lunatick and distracted<lb></lb>
on the Eleventh day of June in the Year aforesaid, out of and through a<lb></lb>
certain Window in the Dwelling House of Dr. <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n1326-19">William Rowley</rs>
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situate in<lb></lb>
Saville Row, at the said Parish of Saint James within the Liberty and<lb></lb>
County aforesaid, at the Heighth of three Story's unto the Ground, did cast and<lb></lb>
throw herself by means whereof the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n1326-20">Mary Steel</rs>
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did then and there<lb></lb>
receive divers mortal Fractures and Bruises in and upon the left Thigh<lb></lb>
and left Ancle of her the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n1326-21">Mary Steel</rs>
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of which said mortal Fractures<lb></lb>
and Bruises she the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n1326-22">Mary Steel</rs>
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then and there instantly died.<lb></lb>
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon theirs Oath aforesaid do say, that the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n1326-23">Mary Steel</rs>
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not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding<lb></lb>
but Lunatic and distracted in manner and by the means aforesaid did<lb></lb>
kill herself</p>
<p n="1327">In Witness whereof as well the said<lb></lb>
Coroner as the said Samuel Hawes Foreman at the said Jurors, on<lb></lb>
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="1328"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n1328-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65230_occ512">Coroner</rs>
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<p n="1329"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n1329-1">Saml. Hawes</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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