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(To wit)}</note>
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AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the parish<lb></lb>
of Saint Matthew <rs type="placeName" id="LMCOIC65102_geo1552">Bethnall Green</rs>
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in the County of<lb></lb>
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, the <rs type="date" id="LMCOIC65102_date229">twenty third Day of December in the twenty third Year of the Reign of<lb></lb>
our sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third</rs>
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, by the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France, and<lb></lb>
Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1489-2">Thomas Phillips</rs>
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one of the Coroners of our said Lord the King for the said County, on View of the Body of <lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1489-3">John Stock</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1489-4">James Hopkins</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1489-6">William Hade</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1489-7">William Clarke</rs>
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Andrew<lb></lb>
Hurt <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1489-8">James Greenwood</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1489-9">James Risault</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1489-10">William Howard</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1489-11">Henry Bishop</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1489-12">Joseph Cadogan</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1489-13">Isaac Cosson</rs>
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, Thomas Samull Daniel Dela Court John<lb></lb>
Leverque and <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1489-14">Thomas Featherstone</rs>
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good and lawful Men of the said County, duly chosen, and who being then and there duly<lb></lb>
sworn and charged to inquire, for our said Lord the King, when, how, and by what Means, the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1489-15">John Stock</rs>
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came to his<lb></lb>
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That The said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1489-16">John Stock</rs>
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not being of sound mind<lb></lb>
Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted on the Nineteenth Day<lb></lb>
of December in the year aforesaid One End of the small Cord to a Wooden Rafter in a certain<lb></lb>
a Place called a Hack House in Mr Scott Field in the Parish and County aforesaid<lb></lb>
and the other End thereof about his own Neck Did fix tye and fasten and therewith<lb></lb>
did then and there hang suffocate and strangle himself of which said Hanging<lb></lb>
Suffocation and Strangling he the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1489-17">John Stock</rs>
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then and there died And so the Jurors<lb></lb>
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1489-18">John Stock</rs>
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not being of<lb></lb>
sound Mind Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted in Manner<lb></lb>
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aforesaid Did kill himself<lb></lb>
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IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1489-19">James Hopkins</rs>
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the Foreman of the said Jurors, on the Behalf of himself and the Rest of his said Fellows, in<lb></lb>
their Presence, have, to this Inquisition, set their Hands and Seals, the Day and Year first<lb></lb>
above written.</p>
<p n="1490"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65102_n1490-1">Thos. Phillips</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMCOIC65102_occ322">Coroner</rs>
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Jas Hopkins<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Foreman</p>
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