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<p n="195"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo201">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo202">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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to wit. </note>
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<p n="196"> An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King, at the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo203">Saint Martin in the Fields</rs>
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<lb></lb>
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo204">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65214_geo205">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65214_date42">Ninth day February</rs>
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in the Fourteenth Year<lb></lb>
of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great-Britain,<lb></lb>
France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n196-1">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>
a Man unknown then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n196-2">Charles<lb></lb>
Sandys</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n196-45">James Hawke</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n196-3">Henry Bellamy</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n196-4">Anthony Oxenbeer</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n196-5">John Heather</rs>
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,<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n196-6">Harry<lb></lb>
Adeane</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n196-7">Benjamin Ixer</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n196-8">Mathew Riley</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n196-9">Edward Berry</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n196-10">Matthew Davis</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n196-11">Adam<lb></lb>
Wright</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n196-12">John Thrift</rs>
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good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly<lb></lb>
Chosen, who being then and there duly sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the<lb></lb>
King, when, how, and by what Means the said Man unknown came to<lb></lb>
his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Man whose Name is unknown<lb></lb>
not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick<lb></lb>
and distracted, on the Seventh day of February in the Year aforesaid,<lb></lb>
at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid, a certain<lb></lb>
Pistol charged with Gunpowder and a leaden Bullet which he the<lb></lb>
said Man Unknown then and there had and held in his Right Hand,<lb></lb>
to and against the Head of him the said Man unknown did then and<lb></lb>
there shoot off and discharge, by Means whereof he the said Man<lb></lb>
unknown did then and there give unto himself with the leaden<lb></lb>
Bullet aforesaid, so discharged and shot out of the Pistol aforesaid<lb></lb>
by the force of the Gunpowder aforesaid, one mortal Wound in and<lb></lb>
through the Head of him the said Man unknown, of which said<lb></lb>
mortal Wound he the said Man unknown then and there died<lb></lb>
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that<lb></lb>
he said Man unknown, not being of sound Mind Memory and<lb></lb>
Understanding, but lunatick and distracted, in Manner and by<lb></lb>
the Means aforesaid, did kill himself. In Witness whereof<lb></lb>
as well the said Coroner, as the said Charles Sandys Foreman of<lb></lb>
the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows,<lb></lb>
in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals<lb></lb>
the Day Year and Place first above written.</p>
<p n="197"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n197-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65214_occ56">Coroner</rs>
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<p n="198"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65214_n198-1">Chas Sandys</rs>
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<obscured></obscured>
Foreman</p>
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