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<p n="1185"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo1176">Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo1177">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="WACWIC65214_geo1178">Saint Margaret<lb></lb>
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo1179">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65214_date236">Twelfth day of September</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 Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n1185-1">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="WACWIC65214_n1185-2">Sarah Knight</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n1185-3">James<lb></lb>
Brown</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n1185-4">Samuel Mitchell</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n1185-5">Thomas Langton</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n1185-6">John Storr</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n1185-7">Joseph Perkins</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n1185-8">John Palmer</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n1185-9">John Brown</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n1185-10">Thomas Newman</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n1185-11">Peter Watson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n1185-12">Joseph<lb></lb>
Skinner</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n1185-13">John Gittes</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n1185-14">Joseph Hanna</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n1185-24">James Greeson</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n1185-15">Joseph<lb></lb>
Kimberley</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="WACWIC65214_n1185-16">Sarah Knight</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n1185-17">Sarah Knight</rs>
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, not being of<lb></lb>
sound Mind Memory and Understanding but lunatick and distracted,<lb></lb>
on the Eleventh day of September in the Year aforesaid, one End<lb></lb>
of a certain Piece of Silk Ribband unto an Iron Bar in the Door<lb></lb>
of the Watch house of the Said Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo1180">Saint Margaret</rs>
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(wherein<lb></lb>
she the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n1185-18">Sarah Knight</rs>
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was Confined) situate and being in the<lb></lb>
Parish Liberty and County aforesaid, and the other End thereof<lb></lb>
about her own Neck did fix tye and fasten, and therewith did then<lb></lb>
and there Hang Suffocate and Strangle herself, of which said<lb></lb>
Hanging Suffocation and Strangling she the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n1185-19">Sarah Knight</rs>
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<lb></lb>
then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid<obscured></obscured>
on their Oath<lb></lb>
aforesaid do say, that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n1185-20">Sarah Knight</rs>
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, not being of sound<lb></lb>
Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted,<lb></lb>
in Manner and by the Means aforesaid did Hang herself<lb></lb>
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n1185-21">James Brown</rs>
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Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself<lb></lb>
and the rest of his Fellows, in their presence, have to this Inquisition<lb></lb>
set their Hands and Seals, the Day Year and Place first above written</p>
<p n="1186"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n1186-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65214_occ381">Coroner</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n1186-2">James Brown</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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