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<p n="752"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> City and Liberty <lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65208_geo730">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65208_geo731">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 <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65208_geo732">Saint George Hanover Square</rs>
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within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65208_geo733">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65208_geo734">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65208_date148">Twenty seventh day of May</rs>
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in the Eighth Year<lb></lb>
of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain,<lb></lb>
France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n752-1">Thomas Prickard</rs>
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, Gentleman,<lb></lb>
Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of <lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n752-28">Letitia Hill</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n752-2">William<lb></lb>
Jones</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n752-3">William Wray</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n752-4">William Watson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n752-5">John Haines</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n752-6">George Tupper</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n752-7">Samuel<lb></lb>
Floyd</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n752-8">James Norris</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n752-63">Samuel Smallman</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n752-9">John Coates</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n752-34">Richard Scrace</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n752-10">Robert Holland</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n752-11">Robert<lb></lb>
Potter</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n752-12">Francis Toplady</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n752-13">Joseph Whalley</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="WACWIC65208_n752-14">Letitia Hill</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Letitia Hill not being of sound<lb></lb>
Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted on the Sixteenth<lb></lb>
day of May in the Year aforesaid, at <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65208_geo735">Hammersmith</rs>
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in the County aforesaid,<lb></lb>
with a certain Iron Hammer which she the said Letitia Hill then and<lb></lb>
there had and held in her Right Hand, in and upon the Head of her the<lb></lb>
said Letitia Hill did then and there several times strike and beat, thereby<lb></lb>
then and there giving unto herself with the Hammer aforesaid, one mortal<lb></lb>
Wound and one mortal Fracture in and upon the Crown of the Head of her the<lb></lb>
said Letitia Hill, of which said mortal Wound and Fracture she the said<lb></lb>
Letitia Hill from the said Sixteenth day of May in the Year aforesaid until<lb></lb>
the Twenty sixth day of the same Month in the<obscured></obscured>
Year of St George's<lb></lb>
Hospital at the said <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65208_geo736">Parish of St George Hanover Square</rs>
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with in the Liberty and<lb></lb>
County aforesaid did languish and languishing did live, on which said<lb></lb>
Twenty sixth day of May in the Year aforesaid, she the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n752-15">Letitia Hill</rs>
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at<lb></lb>
the Hospital aforesaid within the Parish Liberty and County aforesaid<lb></lb>
of the mortal Wound and Fracture aforesaid did die And so the Jurors<lb></lb>
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said Letitia Hill not<lb></lb>
being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding but lunatick and distracted<lb></lb>
in Manner and by the Means aforesaid did kill herself In Witness<lb></lb>
whereof as well the said Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n752-16">William Jones</rs>
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Foreman of<lb></lb>
the said Jurors on the behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows in<lb></lb>
their presence have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the<lb></lb>
Day Year and Place first above written</p>
<p n="753"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n753-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65208_occ222">Coroner</rs>
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<p n="754"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n754-26">Wm Poull</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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