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An Inquisicon Indicted taken at the Parish of St Andrews Holborn in the Ward of Farringdon without London the Twenty [..]
of April Anno Din 1730 Before John King< no role > Esqr Coroner of the sd. City of London on view of the Body of one Richard Peace< no role > [..]
there lying dead by the oaths of Edward Halbond< no role > Richard Cotton< no role > Jasper Speniel< no role > Thomas Watts< no role > Robert Nevill< no role > John Turner< no role > Mathew [..]
James Merrick< no role > Richard Hathwell< no role > William Payne< no role > Edward Fenton< no role > William Sheldon< no role > John Lambert< no role > Thomas Hill< no role > William While< no role >
Howell Gwill< no role > Samuel Grigg< no role > Philip Perce< no role > Thomas Phillips< no role > Christopher Smart< no role > Thomas Bealy< no role > Joseph Pincock< no role > William Smith< no role >
Flanders Richard Ditts< no role > and Thomas Lemon< no role > good and Lawful men of the said City who Say upon Oath that John [..]
late of the Parish of St. Andrews Holborn aforesd. Deakerer God not haveing before his Eyes but being thereunto moved by the [..]
Justigacon of the Devil the Eighth day of this Instant April at the Parish of St. Andrews Holborne aforesd. in and upon the [..]
Richard Pearce< no role > did [..] Feloniously make an assault And that the said John Williams< no role > a Certain Instrument made of [..]
called a Lodering Iron of the Value of Six pence at to and against the said Richard James< no role > feloniously did Cast and throw [..]
did then and there give into the said Richard Peace< no role > with the Lodering Iron as aforesd. one Mortal Wound on the Left side of [..]
head near the Crown of the said Richard Pearce< no role > of which said Mortal wound he the sd. Richard Pearce< no role > from the sd. Eight day of [..]
April in the year aforesd. unto the Eighteenth day of the sd. month of April at the Parish aforesd. Did Languish & Languish [..]
did live on which said Eighteenth day of April he the said Richard Pearce< no role > at the Parish aforesd. in the Ward aforesd. of the [..]
Mortal Wound aforesd. did Dye They find the said John William< no role > Guilty of Manslaughter in killing and Slaying the sd. Richard
Pearce in manner as aforesd.

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