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<p n="376"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65219_geo436">Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65219_geo437">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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} to wit.</note>
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An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King, at the Parish of Saint <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65219_geo438">Covent Garden</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="WACWIC65219_geo439">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65219_geo440">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the Eighth day of April in the Nineteenth 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="WACWIC65219_n376-1">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="WACWIC65219_n376-2">Martha Ray</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n376-40">Joseph<lb></lb>
Hawkes</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n376-3">Christopher Golding</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n376-4">John Pond</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n376-5">John Henry Rigg</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n376-6">Moses Lany</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n376-7">John Helsa</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n376-8">William Smith</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n376-9">Robert Whitworth</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n376-10">John French</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n376-11">Thomas Jeremy</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n376-12">John<lb></lb>
Oakley Clarke</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n376-13">Richard Woods</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n376-14">Michael Guest</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n376-15">Leonard Tresilian</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n376-16">John Dick</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n376-17">Hassell Hutchins</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n376-39">Thomas Kerett</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n376-18">Richard Egan</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n376-19">John Abraham Fisher</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n376-20">Barnaby<lb></lb>
Darley</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n376-21">Edward Barnett</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n376-22">Joseph Withers</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n376-23">Robert Partridge</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n376-24">Edward Blackshaw</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 <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n376-25">Martha Ray</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
h er Death, do upon their Oath say That <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n376-26">James Hackman</rs>
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Clerk late of the Parish aforesaid<lb></lb>
within the Liberty and County aforesaid, not having the fear of God before his Eyes, but<lb></lb>
being moved an seduced by the Instigation of the Devil, on the Seventh day of April<lb></lb>
in the Year aforesaid with Force and Arms at the Parish aforesaid within the<lb></lb>
Liberty and County aforesaid, in and upon the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n376-27">Martha Ray</rs>
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in the Peace of<lb></lb>
God and of our said Lord the King then and there being feloniously wilfully and of his<lb></lb>
Malice afore thought did make on Assault And that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n376-28">James Hackman</rs>
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a<lb></lb>
certain Pistol of the Value of five Shillings charged and loaded with Gun powder and a<lb></lb>
leaden Bullet which he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n376-29">James Hackman</rs>
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then and there had and held in his<lb></lb>
Right Hand to and against the Head of her the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n376-30">Martha Ray</rs>
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did then and there<lb></lb>
shoot off and discharge, by Means whereof he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n376-31">James Hackman</rs>
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feloniously wilfully<lb></lb>
and of his Malice afore thought did then and there give unto her the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n376-32">Martha Ray</rs>
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<lb></lb>
with the leaden Bullet aforesaid so as aforesaid shot off and discharged out of the<lb></lb>
Pistol aforesaid by the force of the Gun powder aforesaid in and through the Head<lb></lb>
of her the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n376-33">Martha Ray</rs>
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one mortal Wound, of which said mortal Wound<lb></lb>
she the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n376-34">Martha Ray</rs>
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then and there instantly died. And so the Jurors aforesaid<lb></lb>
upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n376-35">James Hackman</rs>
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her the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n376-36">Martha<lb></lb>
Ray</rs>
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in Manner and by the Means aforesaid feloniously wilfully and of his<lb></lb>
Malice afore thought did kill and Murder against the Peace of our said Lord the<lb></lb>
King his brown and Dignity. And that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n376-37">James Hackman</rs>
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at the time of<lb></lb>
the committing of the Felony and Murder aforesaid, or at any time since<lb></lb>
had no Goods or Chattels Lands or Tenements within the said Liberty or<lb></lb>
elsewhere to the Knowledge or Notice of the said Jurors, In Witness<lb></lb>
whereof as well the said Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n376-38">Joseph Hawkes</rs>
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Foreman of<lb></lb>
the said Jurors on the behalf of himself and the rest of his said Fellows, in<lb></lb>
their presence have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day<lb></lb>
Year and Place abovementioned.</p>
<p n="377"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n377-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65219_occ119">Coroner</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="378"> <del>Josh</del>
HawkesForeman</p>
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