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<p n="344"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65233_geo340">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the County of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65233_geo341">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 House of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65233_n344-2">James Fozard</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65233_geo342">Parish Lane</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65233_geo343">Parish of Saint George Hanover Square</rs>
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within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65233_geo344">St. Peter, Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65233_geo345">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the Sixteenth day of February 1793 in the thirty third<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="WACWIC65233_n344-34">Anthony<lb></lb>
Gell</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65233_occ179">Esq</rs>
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. <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65233_occ180">Coroner</rs>
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of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on<lb></lb>
View of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65233_n344-4">John Wood</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon<lb></lb>
the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65233_n344-5">James Fozard</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65233_n344-6">Alexander Henderson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65233_n344-7">James Blackwell</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65233_n344-32">John<lb></lb>
Simpson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65233_n344-993">Peter Fozard</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65233_n344-8">Jonathan Bray</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65233_n344-9">Joseph Higgs</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65233_n344-889">James<lb></lb>
Johnson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65233_n344-10">William Dorsett</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65233_n344-11">John Cann</rs>
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,<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65233_n344-12">Robert Griffin</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65233_n344-883">Jonathan<lb></lb>
Hutchins</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65233_n344-14">John Robinson</rs>
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good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly<lb></lb>
chosen, who being then and there duly sworn charged to enquire for our said Lord the<lb></lb>
King, when, how, and by what Means the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65233_n344-15">John Wood</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
h is Death, do upon their Oath say That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65233_n344-16">John Wood</rs>
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not being of sound Mind Memory<lb></lb>
and Understanding but lunatic and distracted on the said sixteenth day of<lb></lb>
February, in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish and in the Liberty aforesaid a certain<lb></lb>
Pistol charged with Gunpowder, and a leader Bullet, which he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65233_n344-17">John Wood</rs>
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then and there had and held in his hand, to and against the head of him the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65233_n344-18">John Wood</rs>
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, did then and there shoot off and discharge by means whereof he the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65233_n344-19">John Wood</rs>
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did then and there give unto himself, with the leaden Bullet aforesaid, so discharged<lb></lb>
and slot out of the Pistol aforesaid, by the force of the Gunpowder aforesaid in and upon the<lb></lb>
head of him the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65233_n344-20">John Wood</rs>
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, one mortal Wound of the breath of One Inch, and<lb></lb>
of the depth of three Inches, of which said Mortal Wound He the said John<lb></lb>
Wood then and there instantly died. And so the Jurors aforesaid, upon<lb></lb>
their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65233_n344-21">John Wood</rs>
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not being of sound<lb></lb>
Mind, Memory, and understanding, but lunatic and distracted in<lb></lb>
manner and by the Means aforesaid, did kill himself.In Witness<lb></lb>
whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Jurors have to this<lb></lb>
Inquisition set their hands and Seals the Day, Year, & Place above - written.</p>
<p n="345"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65233_n345-1">Anthony Gell</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65233_occ181">Coroner</rs>
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Sworn<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65233_n345-2">Alexr: Tlenderson</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65233_n345-3">Js. Blackwell</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65233_n345-4">John Simpson</rs>
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John Pray</p>
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Johnson<lb></lb>
W Derset<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65233_n346-2">Jno Cunn</rs>
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<lb></lb>
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Hine</p>
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Robinson</p>
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