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<p n="1610"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65236_geo1068">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
In the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65236_geo1069">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 House of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65236_n1610-1">William Husband</rs>
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known by the name of the Red Lion Tap in Cocks poor Street<lb></lb>
in the Parish of St. Martin in ye Field within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church<lb></lb>
of St. Peter, <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65236_geo1070">Westminster</rs>
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, in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65236_geo1071">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the twenty first day of July 1796<lb></lb>
in the thirty sixth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third,<lb></lb>
by the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith,<lb></lb>
and so forth, before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65236_n1610-2">Anthony Gell</rs>
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, Esq. Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City<lb></lb>
and Liberty, on View of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65236_n1610-3">James Stacey</rs>
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then and there<lb></lb>
lying dead, upon the Oath of the several Jurors whose Names are hereunder written, and<lb></lb>
Seals affixed, good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly chosen, who being then and<lb></lb>
there duly sworn and charged to enquire of our said Lord the King, when, how, and by<lb></lb>
what Means the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65236_n1610-4">James Stacey</rs>
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came to h is Death, do upon<lb></lb>
their Oath say that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65236_n1610-5">James Stacey</rs>
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not being of sound Mind<lb></lb>
Memory and Understanding but lunatic and distracted on the twentieth<lb></lb>
day of July in the year aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty aforesaid<lb></lb>
one end of a certain Cord about his own Neck and the other end there of unto<lb></lb>
a Post in a certain Stable in Red Lion Yard did fix, and fasten and<lb></lb>
therewith did then and there lang, suffocate and strangle himself: of<lb></lb>
which said Hanging Suffocation and Strangling he the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65236_n1610-6">James Stacey</rs>
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then and there instantly died</p>
<p n="1611">And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid<lb></lb>
do say, that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65236_n1611-1">James Stacey</rs>
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in manner and<lb></lb>
by the means aforesaid not being of sound Mind<lb></lb>
Memory and Understanding but lunatic and<lb></lb>
distracted, did hang and kill himself</p>
<p n="1612"> IN WITNESS whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Jurors, have to this Inquisition<lb></lb>
set their Hands and Seals the Day, Year, & Place first above written.</p>
<p n="1613"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65236_n1613-1">Anthy Gell</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65236_occ544">Coroner</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65236_n1614-2">Lawence Clarke</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65236_n1614-3">Tho Greather</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65236_n1614-4">John Buhl</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65236_n1614-5">Thos Green</rs>
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<p n="1615"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65236_n1615-1">Richard Brooks</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65236_n1615-2">Wm. Thomas</rs>
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Mr Nother<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65236_n1615-3">Isaac Cyr</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65236_n1615-4">Richd Evans</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65236_n1615-5">Jas Jackson</rs>
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<p n="1616"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65236_n1616-1">Saml Crooks</rs>
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