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<p n="238"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65232_geo322">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65232_geo323">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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.}<lb></lb>
to wit.</note>
<lb></lb>
An Inquisition Indented. taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65232_geo324">Parish of St. John the Evangelist</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="WACWIC65232_geo325">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65232_geo326">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the First day of February in the Thirty second<lb></lb>
Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, of<lb></lb>
Great-Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65232_n238-1">Thomas<lb></lb>
Prickard</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65232_occ249">Gentleman</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65232_occ250">Coroner</rs>
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of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on<lb></lb>
View of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65232_n238-2">Margaret Jones</rs>
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then and there <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65232_occ251">lying dead</rs>
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, upon<lb></lb>
the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65232_n238-3">John Randall</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65232_n238-4">James Sculthorp</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65232_n238-5">William Holton</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65232_n238-6">Robert Waite</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65232_n238-7">James Randall</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65232_n238-8">William Clayton</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65232_n238-9">John White</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65232_n238-10">William Wilson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65232_n238-11">Henry Fry</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65232_n238-12">Samuel Townshead</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65232_n238-13">James Bass</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65232_n238-14">John Griffiths</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65232_n238-15">Miles Walker</rs>
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, and<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65232_n238-16">William Spencer</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="WACWIC65232_n238-17">Margaret Jones</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
h er Death, do upon their Oath say , That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65232_n238-18">Margaret Jones</rs>
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not being of<lb></lb>
sound Mind Memory and Understanding but <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65232_occ252">Lunatick</rs>
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and distracted on the<lb></lb>
Thirty first day of January in the Year aforesaid at the said <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65232_geo327">Parish of St. John the<lb></lb>
Evangelist</rs>
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within the Liberty and County aforesaid into the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65232_geo328">River Thames</rs>
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these did<lb></lb>
cast and throw herself by means of which said casting and throwing she the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65232_n238-19">Margaret Jones</rs>
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in the waters of the said River was then and there suffocated<lb></lb>
and drowned of which said Suffocation and drowning she the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65232_n238-20">Margaret<lb></lb>
Jones</rs>
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then and there died And so the James aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid<lb></lb>
do say that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65232_n238-21">Margaret Jones</rs>
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not being of sound Mind Memory and understanding<lb></lb>
but Lunatick and distracted in manner and by the means aforesaid did drown and hill<lb></lb>
herself</p>
<p n="239">In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65232_n239-1">John<lb></lb>
Randall</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65232_occ253">Foreman of the said Jurors</rs>
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on the behalf of himself and the rest of<lb></lb>
his Fellows in their presence have to this Inquisition set their Hands and<lb></lb>
Seals the Day Year and place abovementioned</p>
<p n="240"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65232_n240-1">Tho Prickard</rs>
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.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65232_n240-2">John Randall</rs>
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