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<p n="698"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65211_geo545">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65211_geo546">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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}to wit. </note>
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<p n="699"> An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King, at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65211_geo547">Parish of St. Martin in the Fields</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="WACWIC65211_geo548">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65211_geo549">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65211_date134">Fifteenth day of May</rs>
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in the Eleventh 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="WACWIC65211_n699-1">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="WACWIC65211_n699-88">Mark Aldersey</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n699-2">Gideon<lb></lb>
Dare</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n699-3">John Showrd</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n699-4">John Reed</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n699-5">George Drew</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n699-6">Edward Birch</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n699-7">James Bright</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n699-8">Richard Driver</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n699-44">William Roathwell</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n699-9">William Millet</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n699-10">Adam Brown</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n699-11">Robert Thatcher</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n699-12">Thomas Straight</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n699-13">Charles Rogers</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n699-33">Cossley Keene</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n699-14">Edward Nelson</rs>
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Good and Lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly<lb></lb>
Chosen, when, 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 Mark Aldersey came to<lb></lb>
his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Mark Aldersey not being of<lb></lb>
sound Mind Memory and Unerstanding but lunatick and distracted,<lb></lb>
on the Tenth day of May in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the<lb></lb>
Liberty and County aforesaid a great Quantity of Sublimate being a<lb></lb>
deadly Poison, into a certain Quantity of hot Water, did then and there put<lb></lb>
and mix, and the said Sublimate so put and mixt as aforesaid, he the said<lb></lb>
Mark Aldersey not being of sound mind Memory and Understanding but<lb></lb>
lunatick and distracted as aforesaid, did then and there take drink and<lb></lb>
swallow down, by Means whereof he the said Mark Aldersey becme then and<lb></lb>
there sick and distempered in his Body, and of the Poison aforesaid, and of<lb></lb>
the Sickness and Distemper thereby occasioned, from the said Tenth day of<lb></lb>
May in the Year aforesaid until the said fifteenth day of the Same month<lb></lb>
at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid did languish and<lb></lb>
languishing did live on which said Fifteenth day of May in the Year aforesaid<lb></lb>
at the Parish an in the Liberty and County aforesaid, he the said Mark<lb></lb>
Aldersey of the Poison aforesaid, and of the Sickness and Distemper occasioned<lb></lb>
thereby, did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say<lb></lb>
that the said Mark Aldersey, not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding<lb></lb>
but lunatick and distracted, in Manner and by the Means aforesaid, did Poison<lb></lb>
and kill himself. In Witness where of as Well the said Coroner as the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n699-69">Gidcon Dare</rs>
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Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the<lb></lb>
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="700"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n700-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65211_occ186">Coroner</rs>
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<p n="701"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n701-1">Gideon Dare</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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