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<p n="95"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo101">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo102">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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.}<lb></lb>
to wit.</note>
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<p n="96">An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King, at the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo103">Saint Martin in the Fields</rs>
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<lb></lb>
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of Collegiate Church of St. Peter, <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo104">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo105">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the Twenty fourth day of January in the Sixteenth 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="WACWIC65216_n96-1">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="WACWIC65216_n96-2">Judith Baldwin</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n96-20">James<lb></lb>
Bick</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n96-3">John Hill</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n96-4">Thomas Palmer</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n96-5">John Bishop</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n96-6">William Adams</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n96-7">James<lb></lb>
Hartley</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n96-8">Joseph Taylor</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n96-9">John Wayman</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n96-10">Robert Shuter</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n96-11">Stephen<lb></lb>
Toplas</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n96-21">Francis Jander</rs>
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<interp inst="WACWIC65216_n96-21" type="surname" value="Jander"></interp>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n96-12">Richard Ayres</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n96-13">Richard Knowles</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n96-14">William Ryan</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="WACWIC65216_n96-15">Judith Baldwin</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
her Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n96-16">Judith Baldwin</rs>
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, not being<lb></lb>
of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted,<lb></lb>
on the Twenty Second day of January in the Year aforesaid at the<lb></lb>
Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid, one End of a certain<lb></lb>
Place of small Cord unto an Iron Nail fastened into a Wooden Beam<lb></lb>
in the Yard of her the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n96-17">Judith Baldwin</rs>
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Situate and being in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo106">Hedge Lane</rs>
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in the said Parish Liberty and County, and the other End<lb></lb>
thereof about her own Neck did fix tye and fasten, and therewith<lb></lb>
said then and there hang suffocate and strangle himself of which<lb></lb>
said Hanging Suffocation and Strangling she the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n96-18">Judith Baldwin</rs>
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<lb></lb>
then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath<lb></lb>
aforesaid do say, that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n96-19">Judith Baldwin</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 kill herself. In Witness<lb></lb>
whereof as well the said Coroner as the said James Bick Foreman<lb></lb>
of the said Jurors, have to this Inquisition set their Hands<lb></lb>
and Seals the Day Year and Place first abovewritten</p>
<p n="97"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n97-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65216_occ29">Coroner</rs>
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</p>
<p n="98"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n98-1">James Bick Foreman</rs>
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