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An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign, Lord the
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King, at the
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, the
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in the Twelfth Year
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of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great-Britain,
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France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before
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Thomas Prickard
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, Gentleman,
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Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of
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John Collip
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
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John
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Hawkes
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Francis Miller
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William Hooper
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Robert Bagnall
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Thomas Russell
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John Biss
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John Heather
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Francis Stacey
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John Dewbery
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Abraham Leaper
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William Green
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Alexander Gardner
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Edward Grace
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Thomas Heffernon
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William Dawson
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William Wood
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James Wells
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and
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William Andrews
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, good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
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chosen, who being then and there duly sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the
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King, when, how, and by what Means the said John Collip came to
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h is Death, do upon their Oath say That the said John Collip, not being of sound
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Mind Memory and Understanding but lunatick and distracted, on the Thirtieth
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day of March in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty and County
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aforesaid, one End of a certain piece of small Cord unto a Wooden Brace
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in the work yard of
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William Ringsted
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and
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James Poole
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Coach makers,
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Situate in
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Long Acre
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in the said Parish Liberty and County, and the other
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End thereof about his own Neck, did tye fix and fasten, and therewith
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did then and there Hang Suffocate and Strangle himself, of which said
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Hanging Suffocation and Strangling he the said John Collip then and
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there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say
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that the said John Collip, not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding
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but lunatic and distracted in Manner and by the Means aforesaid, did
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kill himself. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the
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said
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John Hawkes
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Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and
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the rest of his Fellows, in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their
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Hands and Seals, the Day Year and Place first above written
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Jas Hawkes
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Foreman
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