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<p n="2040"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65205_geo1910">City and Liberty of Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65205_geo1911">County of Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit }</note>
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<p n="2041">An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord<lb></lb>
the King at the Parish of Saint George <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65205_geo1912">Hanover Square</rs>
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within the<lb></lb>
the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St Peter <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65205_geo1913">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65205_geo1914">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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, the Twenty first day of December in the SixthYear of the Reign<lb></lb>
of our Sovereign Lord George the Third by the grace of God of Great Britain France and<lb></lb>
Ireland King Defender of the Faith and So forth before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n2041-1">Thomas Prickard</rs>
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Gentleman<lb></lb>
Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty on view of the Body of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n2041-17">Swain Jenkins</rs>
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, then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n2041-2">John Sykes</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n2041-3">Thomas Moon</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n2041-4">James Beckett</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n2041-5">Samuel Platt</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n2041-18">Edward March</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n2041-6">William Green</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n2041-7">Thomas Weaver</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n2041-8">William Gibson</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n2041-9">James Martin</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n2041-19">Morris Rice</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n2041-10">Nicholas Marvill</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n2041-20">Edward Jay</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n2041-11">William Minnis</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n2041-12">Tall Scott</rs>
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good and lawfull Men of the said Liberty duly chosen, who being then and there<lb></lb>
duly Sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord the King when how and by<lb></lb>
What means the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n2041-13">Swain Jenkins</rs>
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Came to his Death do upon their<lb></lb>
Oath says, That the said Swain Jenkins, laboring under a grievous Disease of Body to Wit,<lb></lb>
a Fever, and by reason of the Violence of the said Disease, being delirious and out of his Mind,<lb></lb>
on the Twentieth day of December in the Year aforesaid, at the dwelling House of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n2041-14">Thomas Matthews</rs>
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Esquire situate and being in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65205_geo1915">Dean Street</rs>
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in the Parish aforesaid Within the Liberty and County<lb></lb>
aforesaid, a Certain Pistol charged with Gunpowder and a leaden Bullet which he the said<lb></lb>
Swain Jenkins then and there had and here in his right Hand<obscured></obscured>
and against the Rights<lb></lb>
side of the Head of him the said Swain Jenkins so delirious and out of his Mind as<lb></lb>
aforesaid, did then and there shoot off and discharge, by Means whereof he the said Swain<lb></lb>
Jenkins did then and there give unto himself so delirious and out of his Mind as aforesaid,<lb></lb>
with the leaden Bullet aforesaid, so discharged and shot out of the Pistol aforesaid, by the force of<lb></lb>
the Gunpowder aforesaid, one mortal Wound in and through the Head of him the said<lb></lb>
Swain Jenkins, of which said Mortal Wound he the said Swain Jenkins then and there<lb></lb>
instantly died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said<lb></lb>
Swain Jenkins, being delirious and out of his Mind as aforesaid by reason of the<lb></lb>
Fever aforesaid, in Manner and by the Means aforesaid, did kill himself<lb></lb>
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n2041-16">John Sykes</rs>
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Foreman<lb></lb>
of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his said Fellows, in their<lb></lb>
presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals, the Day Year and<lb></lb>
Place first above written</p>
<p n="2042"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n2042-1">Tho Prickard</rs>
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<p n="2043"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n2043-1">John Sykes</rs>
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