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who being now here duly chosen sworn and charged
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to inquire for our said Lord the King when how and in what manner the said James
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Buttar came to his death say upon their Oath that the said James Buttar on the
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seventeenth day of February in the year aforesaid at the parish and Ward aforesaid a
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there shoot off and discharge giving to himself then and there with the leaden bullett
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one mortal wound
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of the length of one Inch and the Depth of three Inches of which said
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