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An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovn Lord the King at London that is to say at
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aforesaid on the twenty first day of August in the
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thirty third year o the reign of our Sovn Lord George the third by the grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King
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defender of he faith and so forth before
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to inquire for our said Lord the King when how and in what manner the sd
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say upon their Oath that the said
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not being of sound mind memory and understanding but lunatic and
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distracted on the twentieth day of August in the year afsd at the psh & ward afsd in London afsd a certain Pistol Carted
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with Gunpowder and or leaden Bullet which he the sd
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against the left Breast of him the said
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did then and there shoot off and discharge giving to
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himself then and there with the leaden bullett aforesaid so shot off and discharged from the said Pistol by the
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force of the Gunpowter aforesaid one mortal wound in and upon the left breast of him the said
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of one Inch and the depth of two in her of which said mortal wound he she said
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did then and there instantly die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said
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not being of sound mind memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted did shoot and
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Kill himself In Witness whereof as will the sd Coroner as that Vincent Boare the foreman of the sd Jurors
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on behalf of himself and the rest of his fellows in their presence have to their Inquisition set their hand
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and seals the day year and place first abovewritten.
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