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<p n="2088"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1657">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1658">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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}<lb></lb>
to wit.</note>
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<p n="2089">An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King, at the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1659">Saint George Hanover Square</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="WACWIC65213_geo1660">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1661">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65213_date414">Fourth day of November</rs>
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in the Fourteenth Year<lb></lb>
of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great-Britain,<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="WACWIC65213_n2089-25">Eleanor Dutton</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n2089-1">Thomas<lb></lb>
Butcher</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n2089-2">William Fisher</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n2089-3">Francis Noden</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n2089-4">Richard Sandyford</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n2089-5">Benjamin Cook</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n2089-33">Jeremiah Lary</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n2089-6">John Marshall</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n2089-7">Robert Loveday</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n2089-8">Samuel Waters</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n2089-9">John Hance</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n2089-10">Robert<lb></lb>
Minnett</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n2089-11">George Draper</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n2089-45">Thomas Ponteel</rs>
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& <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n2089-12">Isaac Floyd</rs>
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, good and lawfull 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 Eleanor Dutton came to<lb></lb>
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Eleanor Dutton, not being of<lb></lb>
sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted, on<lb></lb>
the First day of November in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish and in the<lb></lb>
Liberty and County aforesaid, with a certain Knife, made of Iron and Steel,<lb></lb>
which she the said Eleanor Dutton then and there had and held in her Right<lb></lb>
Hand, the Throat or Gullet of her the said Eleanor Dutton did then and there<lb></lb>
strike stab and penetrate, thereby then and there giving unto herself,<lb></lb>
with the Knife aforesaid, in and upon the Throat or Gullet of her the<lb></lb>
said Eleanor Dutton one mortal Wound, of the Length of three Inches,<lb></lb>
and of the Depth of one Inch, of which said mortal Wound she the<lb></lb>
said Eleanor Dutton from the said First day of November in the Year aforesaid,<lb></lb>
until the Third day of the same Month and Year, at the Parish and in the<lb></lb>
Liberty and County aforesaid, did languish and languishing did live, on<lb></lb>
which said Third day of November aforesaid, at the Parish Liberty and<lb></lb>
County aforesaid, she the said Eleanor Dutton of the mortal Wound aforesaid<lb></lb>
did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that<lb></lb>
the said Eleanor Dutton, not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding,<lb></lb>
but lunatick and distracted, in Manner and by the Means of aforesaid, did<lb></lb>
kill herself. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n2089-13">Thomas Butcher</rs>
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Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and<lb></lb>
the rest of his Fellows, in the presence, have to his Inquisition set their<lb></lb>
Hands and Seals, the Day Year and Place First above written</p>
<p n="2090"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n2090-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65213_occ504">Coroner</rs>
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<p n="2091"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n2091-26">Thos. Butcher</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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