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of Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo1276">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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}<lb></lb>
to wit </note>
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<p n="1138"> An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King at the Parish of Saint Martin in the fields<lb></lb>
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo1277">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo1278">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the Eighth day of July in the Twenty Fourth<lb></lb>
Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, of <lb></lb>
Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n1138-1">Thomas<lb></lb>
Prickard</rs>
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, Gentleman, Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on <lb></lb>
View of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n1138-2">Charles Linton</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon <lb></lb>
the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n1138-3">Thomas Northam</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n1138-4">William Woodward</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n1138-5">William Knight</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n1138-28">Charles Dewsbury</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n1138-6">William Campbell</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n1138-7">Huddard Dutton</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n1138-8">William<lb></lb>
Evitt</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n1138-9">Samuel Bright</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n1138-10">Edward White</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n1138-11">William Shepherd</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n1138-12">John<lb></lb>
Jones</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n1138-13">Richard Kilsby</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n1138-14">William Dodd</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n1138-15">Richard Smith</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n1138-16">Thomas Sullens</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n1138-17">Robert Lambert</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n1138-18">Alexander Dow</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
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="WACWIC65224_n1138-19">Charles Linton</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
his Death, do upon their Oath say That a man to the Jurors aforesaid as yet<lb></lb>
unknown not having the Fear of God before his Eyes but being moved and seduced by the Instigation<lb></lb>
of the Devil on the said Eighth day of July in the Year aforesaid with Force and Arms at<lb></lb>
the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid in and upon the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n1138-20">Charles<lb></lb>
Linton</rs>
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in the Peace of God and of our said Lord the King then and there being feloniously wilfully<lb></lb>
and of his Malice forethought did make an Assault, And that the said Man unknown with a<lb></lb>
certain Knife made of Iron and Steel which he the said Man unknown then and there had and<lb></lb>
held in his Right Hand him the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n1138-21">Charles Linton</rs>
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in and upon the Rightside of the Body<lb></lb>
of him the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n1138-22">Charles Linton</rs>
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then and there did strike stab and Panetrate, And that the<lb></lb>
said Man to the Jurors aforesaid as yet unknown did then and there give unto him the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n1138-23">Charles Linton</rs>
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in and upon he Right side of the Body of him the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n1138-24">Charles Linton</rs>
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<lb></lb>
with the Knife aforesaid one mortal wound of the Length of one Inch and of the Depth<lb></lb>
of three Inches, of which said mortal wound he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n1138-25">Charles Linton</rs>
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then and<lb></lb>
there died, And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said<lb></lb>
man unknown him the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n1138-26">Charles Linton</rs>
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in Manner and by the Means aforesaid<lb></lb>
feloniously wilfully and of his Malice fore thought did kill and murder agaisnt the Peace<lb></lb>
of our said Lord the King his Crown and Dignity. And that the said Man unknown<lb></lb>
after he had committed the Felony and Murder aforesaid, in Manner aforesaid withdraw<lb></lb>
and fled for the same. In Witness where of as well the said Coroner as the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n1138-27">Thomas Northam</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65224_occ753">Foreman</rs>
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of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the<lb></lb>
rest of his Fellows, in their presence have to this Inquisition set their<lb></lb>
Hands and Seals the Day Year and Place abovewritten</p>
<p n="1139"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n1139-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65224_occ754">Coroner</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Tho. NorthamForeman</p>
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