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Ireland King Defender of the Faith and So forth before
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good and lawfull Men of the said Liberty duly chosen, who being then and there
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duly Sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord the King when how and by
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Oath says, That the said Swain Jenkins, laboring under a grievous Disease of Body to Wit,
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a Fever, and by reason of the Violence of the said Disease, being delirious and out of his Mind,
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on the Twentieth day of December in the Year aforesaid, at the dwelling House of
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in the Parish aforesaid Within the Liberty and County
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aforesaid, a Certain Pistol charged with Gunpowder and a leaden Bullet which he the said
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Swain Jenkins then and there had and here in his right Hand
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side of the Head of him the said Swain Jenkins so delirious and out of his Mind as
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Swain Jenkins, of which said Mortal Wound he the said Swain Jenkins then and there
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instantly died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said
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Fever aforesaid, in Manner and by the Means aforesaid, did kill himself
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In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said
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of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his said Fellows, in their
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presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals, the Day Year and
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