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<p n="1427"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65233_geo1237">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the County of<lb></lb>
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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_n1427-2">Humphry Chadwick</rs>
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, <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65233_geo1239">Little George Street</rs>
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, <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65233_geo1240">Chapel St</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65233_geo1241">St. Margarets</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65233_geo1242">Sign of the Horshoes</rs>
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within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65233_geo1243">St. Peter, Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65233_geo1244">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65233_date198">twenty sixth day of June 1793</rs>
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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_n1427-132">Anthony<lb></lb>
Gell</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65233_occ755">Esq</rs>
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. <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65233_occ756">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_n1427-5">Joseph Orten</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon<lb></lb>
the Oath of the several Jurors whose Names and hereunder<lb></lb>
written and Seals affixed<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="WACWIC65233_n1427-6">Joseph Orten</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_n1427-7">Joseph Orten</rs>
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not being of sound<lb></lb>
Mind, Memory, and Understanding, but lunatic and distracted, on the twenty<lb></lb>
fifth day of June in the year aforesaid, at the Parish and in the liberty aforesaid<lb></lb>
a certain Gun, called a Musket, charged with Gunpowder and a Leaden Bullet, which he<lb></lb>
the said Joseph Orten placed against his own Breast, did then and there shoot off & discharge<lb></lb>
by means whereof he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65233_n1427-8">Joseph Orten</rs>
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did then and there give unto himself, with<lb></lb>
the leader Bullet aforesaid (which passed entirely through his Body) so discharged & shot<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65233_geo1245">out of the<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Green</rs>
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aforesaid, by the face of the Gunpowder aforesaid one Mortal wound<lb></lb>
of which said Mortal Wound he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65233_n1427-9">Joseph Orten</rs>
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there instantly died<lb></lb>
And so the Jurors aforesaid, upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65233_n1427-10">Joseph Orten</rs>
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, not being of sound Mind, Memory, and<lb></lb>
Understanding, but <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65233_occ757">lunatic</rs>
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and distracted, in manner and<lb></lb>
by the Means aforesaid, did kill himself</p>
<p n="1428">In Witness whereof as well the said<lb></lb>
Coroner as the said Jurors time to this Inquisition<lb></lb>
set their hands & Seals the day year & place first<lb></lb>
above written</p>
<p n="1429"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65233_n1429-1">George Lucas</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65233_n1429-2">John Maclin</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65233_n1429-3">Thomas Watson</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65233_n1429-4">Anthy Gell</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65233_n1429-5">John Griffith</rs>
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Forman</p>
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<p n="1431">J I Lauran<lb></lb>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65233_n1432-902">Edwd. Newnham</rs>
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