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<p n="1178"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65222_geo1269">Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65222_geo1270">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
<lb></lb>
An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King at the Parish of Saint Margaret<lb></lb>
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65222_geo1271">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65222_geo1272">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the Fourteenth day of October in the twenty second 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="WACWIC65222_n1178-1">Thomas Prickard</rs>
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, Gentleman,<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65222_occ816">Coroner</rs>
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of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of <lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65222_n1178-2">James Holt</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65222_n1178-3">John<lb></lb>
Ward</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65222_n1178-4">Hugh Payne</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65222_n1178-5">John Cartwright</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65222_n1178-6">Thomas Albon</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65222_n1178-7">George<lb></lb>
White</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65222_n1178-8">Matthew Hill</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65222_n1178-9">Gabriel Piercy</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65222_n1178-10">George Bennett</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65222_n1178-11">John<lb></lb>
Littlewood</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65222_n1178-12">John Moore</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65222_n1178-13">William Ashdon</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65222_n1178-14">John Hayman</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65222_n1178-15">Benjamin Plater</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65222_n1178-16">Robert Burn</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="WACWIC65222_n1178-17">James Holt</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65222_n1178-18">James Holt</rs>
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not having the fear of God before<lb></lb>
his Eyes but being moved and seduced by the Instigation of the Devil, on the<lb></lb>
thirteenth day of October in the Year aforesaid with Force and Arms at the<lb></lb>
Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid in and upon<lb></lb>
himself in the Peace of God and of our said Sovereign Lord the King then and there<lb></lb>
being feloniously wilfully and of his Malice forethought did make an Assault,<lb></lb>
And that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65222_n1178-19">James Holt</rs>
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a certain Musket of the Value of ten Shillings<lb></lb>
charged with Gun powder and a leaden Bullet which he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65222_n1178-20">James Holt</rs>
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then<lb></lb>
and there had and held in his Hand feloniously wilfully and of his Malice<lb></lb>
forethought to and against the Head of him the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65222_n1178-21">James Holt</rs>
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did then and<lb></lb>
there shoot off and discharge, and that by Means of the shooting off and discharging<lb></lb>
of the Musket aforesaid he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65222_n1178-22">James Holt</rs>
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did then and there give unto himself<lb></lb>
with the leaden Bullet aforesaid so as aforesaid discharged and shot out of the<lb></lb>
Musket aforesaid by the force of the Gunpowder aforesaid in and through the Head of<lb></lb>
him the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65222_n1178-23">James Holt</rs>
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one, Mortal Wound, of which said Mortal Wound he the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65222_n1178-24">James Holt</rs>
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then and there instantly died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath<lb></lb>
aforesaid do say, that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65222_n1178-25">James Holt</rs>
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in Manner and by the Means aforesaid feloniously<lb></lb>
wilfully and of his Malice forethought did kill and murder himself, against the Peal<lb></lb>
of our said Lord the King his Crown and Dignity, And that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65222_n1178-26">James Holt</rs>
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at the<lb></lb>
time of the said Felony and Murder so as aforesaid done and committed had no<lb></lb>
Goods or Chattels Lands or Tenements within the said Liberty or elsewhere to the<lb></lb>
knowledge of the said Jurors. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner<lb></lb>
as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65222_n1178-27">John Ward</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65222_occ817">Foreman</rs>
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of the said Jurors on the behalf of himself<lb></lb>
and the rest of his Fellows, in their presence, have to this Inquisition set<lb></lb>
their Hands and Seals the Day Year and Place above written</p>
<p n="1179"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65222_n1179-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65222_occ818">Coroner</rs>
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</p>
<p n="1180"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65222_n1180-1">John Ward</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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