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<p n="416"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">City and Liberty of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65203_geo366">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65203_geo367">County of Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit.</note>
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An Inquisition Indented, taken for Our Sovereign Lord the King at the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65203_geo368">Parish of St. George Hanover Square</rs>
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within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St.<lb></lb>
Peter <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65203_geo369">Westminster</rs>
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, in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65203_geo370">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65203_date87">Ninth day of May</rs>
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in the Third Year of the Reign<lb></lb>
of our Sovereign Lord George the Third by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King<lb></lb>
Defender of the Faith and so forth, before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n416-1">Thomas Prickard</rs>
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Gentleman Coroner of our said Lord the King<lb></lb>
for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n416-2">Mary Adams</rs>
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then and there lying Dead<lb></lb>
upon their Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n416-3">James Watkins</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n416-99">William Banier</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n416-4">James Cox</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n416-5">Henry Wood</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n416-6">Jeremiah<lb></lb>
Bullock</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n416-7">William Barnet</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n416-8">Isaac Harrison</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n416-9">James Kennedy</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n416-10">Charles King</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n416-11">Nathaniel<lb></lb>
Moore</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n416-12">James Johnston</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n416-13">William Hunter</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n416-14">William Howard</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n416-15">Christopher Morgan</rs>
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good and lawful Men of the said Liberty duly chosen, who being then and there duty Sworn and<lb></lb>
charged to inquire for our said Lord, the King, when how, and by what Means the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n416-16">Mary<lb></lb>
Adams</rs>
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came to his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n416-17">Mary Adams</rs>
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, not being of<lb></lb>
sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted, on the Seventh day of May<lb></lb>
in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid,<lb></lb>
a great, Quantity of White Arsenic, being a deadly Poison, into a certain quantity of Liquid<lb></lb>
did then and there put and mix; and the said White Arsenic so put and mixt as aforesaid, she<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n416-18">Mary Adams</rs>
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, not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatic and distracted<lb></lb>
as aforesaid, did then and there take, drink, and swallow down; by Means whereof she the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n416-19">Mary Adams</rs>
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became then and there Sick and distempered in her Body, and of the Poison<lb></lb>
aforesaid and of the Sickness and Distemper thereby occasioned from the said seventh day of May in<lb></lb>
the Year aforesaid, until the Eighth day of the same Month in the same Year, at the Parish aforesaid<lb></lb>
within the Liberty and County, aforesaid, did languish, and languishing did live; on which said Eighth<lb></lb>
day of May in the Year aforesaid at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid<lb></lb>
she the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n416-20">Mary Adams</rs>
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if the Poison aforesaid, and of the Sickness and Distemper occasioned<lb></lb>
thereby, did dye, And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said<lb></lb>
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not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted,<lb></lb>
in Manner and by the Means aforesaid, did Poison and kill himself. In Witness whereof<lb></lb>
as well the said Coroner, as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n416-22">James Watkins</rs>
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Foreman of the said Jurors, on behalf of<lb></lb>
himself and the rest of his Fellows, in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands,<lb></lb>
and Seals the Day Year and Place first above written</p>
<p n="417"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n417-1">Thos. Prickard</rs>
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<p n="418"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65203_n418-1">James Watkins</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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