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<p n="411"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65219_geo479">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65219_geo480">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 George <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65219_geo481">Hanover Square</rs>
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within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65219_geo482">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65219_geo483">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the Nineteenth 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_n411-1">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_n411-13">Samuel Bastick</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n411-2">Benjamin<lb></lb>
Feild</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n411-3">Robert Jones</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n411-4">Jacob Nelstrup</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n411-14">William Stronach</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n411-5">John Marshall</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n411-6">Henry<lb></lb>
Ewer</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n411-7">Joseph Hill</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n411-8">Thomas wilson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n411-9">Aaron Sylva</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n411-15">Robert Lelow</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n411-10">Thomas<lb></lb>
Reynoldson</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n411-11">Edward Grove</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 Samuel Bastick came to<lb></lb>
h is Death, do upon their Oath say , That the said Samuel Bastick, not<lb></lb>
being of sound Mind Memory and understanding but lunatick<lb></lb>
and distracted on the Seventeenth day of April in the Year aforesaid<lb></lb>
at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid<lb></lb>
a certain Towling Piece charged with Gunpowder and a<lb></lb>
leaden Bullet to and against the Belly of him the said Samuel<lb></lb>
Bastick did then and there discharge, by Means whereof he the<lb></lb>
said Samuel Bastick did then and there give unto himself<lb></lb>
with the leaden Bullet aforesaid so discharged and shot<lb></lb>
out of the Pistol aforesaid by the force of the Gunpowder aforesaid<lb></lb>
in and upon the Belly of him the said Samuel Bastick one<lb></lb>
mortal Wound of the breadth of one Inch and of the Depth<lb></lb>
of six Inches, of which said mortal Wound he the said<lb></lb>
Samuel Bastick then and there instantly died. And so the<lb></lb>
Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the<lb></lb>
said Samuel Bastick not being of sound Mind Memory and<lb></lb>
Understanding but lunatick and distracted, in Manner and<lb></lb>
by the Means aforesaid, did kill himself. In Witness whereof<lb></lb>
as well the said Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n411-12">Benjamin Feild</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Foreman of the said Jurors on the behalf of himself and<lb></lb>
the rest of his said Fellows, in their presence, have to this<lb></lb>
Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day Year and Place<lb></lb>
abovementioned.</p>
<p n="412"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n412-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65219_occ128">Coroner</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="413"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n413-1">Benj Feild</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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