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<p n="2258"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> City and Liberty <lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1753">Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1754">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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}<lb></lb>
to wit. </note>
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An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King, at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1755">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="WACWIC65213_geo1756">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1757">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65213_date434">Eleventh day of December</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>
France and Irelane, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n2258-1">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="WACWIC65213_n2258-77">Gavin Shiells</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n2258-2">William<lb></lb>
Flack</rs>
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. <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n2258-3">John Clinton</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n2258-4">Andrew Taylor</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n2258-5">Archibald Smith</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n2258-6">Alexander Paterson</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n2258-7">John Robertson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n2258-8">Edward Brignall</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n2258-9">George Wilson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n2258-66">Joseph Criswell</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n2258-10">William Allcock</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n2258-11">Matthew Lovejoy</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n2258-55">Thomas Jeremy</rs>
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& <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n2258-13">Richard Jarvis</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 <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n2258-14">Gavin Shiells</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Gavin Shiells, not being<lb></lb>
of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatic and distracted,<lb></lb>
on the Tenth day of December in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish<lb></lb>
and in the Liberty and County aforesaid, one End of a certain Piece<lb></lb>
of small Cord unto part of a Glass Case in the Lodging Room or<lb></lb>
Apartment of the said Gavin Shiells in the dwelling House of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n2258-15">George Farquharson</rs>
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situate and being in the said Parish Liberty<lb></lb>
and County, and the other End there of about his own Neck did<lb></lb>
fix tye and fasten, and therewith did then and there Hang<lb></lb>
suffocate and strangle himself, of which said Hanging Suffocation<lb></lb>
and Strangling he the said Gavin Shiells then and there died<lb></lb>
and so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that<lb></lb>
the said Gavin Shiells, not being of sound Mind Memory and<lb></lb>
Understanding but lunatick and distracted in manner and by<lb></lb>
the Means aforesaid, did kill himself In Witness whereof<lb></lb>
as well the said Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n2258-16">William Flack</rs>
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Foreman of<lb></lb>
the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows,<lb></lb>
in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and<lb></lb>
Seals, the Day Year and Place First above written</p>
<p n="2259"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n2259-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n2259-36">Wm. Flack</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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