Middlesex
To Wit.

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An Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the Parish of [..] Mary
Dillington in the County of Middlesex , the twentieth Day of May in the 22nd. Year of the
Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the third , by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France and Ireland, KING, Defender of
the Faith, Etc. before Edward Umfreville< no role > one of the Coroners of Our said Lord
the KING, for the said County, on view of the body of John Heard< no role >
then and there lying dead, upon the oath of John Rivington< no role >
John Thompson< no role > Charles Brown< no role > John Jackson< no role > Nathaniel Clarkson< no role > Charles
Lander Henry Wright< no role > William Palmer< no role > Gerrard Delafose< no role > Thomas Rudd< no role >
James Collins< no role > Thomas Johnson< no role > Edward Heylin< no role > John Rowley< no role > James Crane< no role >
Thomas Ludgate< no role >
good and lawful Men of the said County duly chosen as by Law required, and who being then and there duly sworn
and charged to enquire for our said Lord the KING, when, how, and by what means the said John Heard< no role >
came to h is Death, Do upon their Oath say, That Some Person or Persons to
the Jurors aforesaid as yet unknown not having the Fear of God before his her or their Eyes but
being moved and seduced by the Instigation of the Darl on the seventeenth Day of May in the year
aforesaid with Force and arms at the Parish and in the County aforesaid in and upon the said John Heard< no role > in the Peace
of God and aforesaid Lord the King then and there being feloniously Wilfully and of his her or their
Malice aforethought did make an Assault And That the said Person or Persons so as aforesaid
as yet unknown a certain Pistol of [..] Value [..] charged with Gun powder and
a Leaden Bullet which the said Person or Persons so as aforesaid unknown then and there had and
held in his, her or their Right Hand feloniously Wilfully and of his, her or their Malice aforethought to and
against the Head of him the said John Heard< no role > did then and there shoot off and discharge and by Means
thereof they the said Person or Persons so as aforesaid unknown did then and there give unto him the said John
Heard with the [..] Leaden Bullet aforesaid so as aforesaid Shot off and discharged out of the Pistol aforesaid
by the Force of the Gun powder aforesaid One Mortal wound in and through the Head of him the said John Heard< no role > in
which said Mortal Wound he the said John Heard< no role > then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their
Oath aforesaid Do say That the said Person or Persons so as aforesaid unknown him the said John Heard< no role > in
Manner and by the Means aforesaid feloniously wilfully and of his her or their Malice aforethought
Did kill and Murder against the Peace of our said Lord the King his Crown and Dignity
IN WITNESS whereof, as well as the said Coroner, as the said John Rivington< no role > the Foreman of
the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows, in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their
Hands and Seals the Day and Year first abovementioned

E Umfreville [mark] Coronr.

John Rivington< no role > [mark] Foreman