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<p n="688"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">London</note>
An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to say<lb></lb>
at the parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65008_geo611">Saint Botolph without Aldgate</rs>
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in the ward of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65008_geo612">Portsoken</rs>
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in London aforesaid<lb></lb>
on the <rs type="date" id="LMCLIC65008_date155">twenty fifth day of April</rs>
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in the thirty fifth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord<lb></lb>
George the third by the race of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the<lb></lb>
faith and so forth before <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n688-3">Thomas Shelton</rs>
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of our said Lord the King for the<lb></lb>
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and Borough of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65008_geo614">Southwark</rs>
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on view of the body of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n688-4">Maxwell Maysmith</rs>
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now<lb></lb>
here lying dead by the oath of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n688-5">William Jackson</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n688-6">Benjamin Burton</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n688-7">Richard Grace</rs>
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George<lb></lb>
Dollitt Edward Buttenshaw John Benford <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n688-8">Anthony Turdall</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n688-9">John Paterson</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n688-10">Robert Simple</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n688-11">William Pratt</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n688-12">Robert Browne</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n688-13">William Hedgman</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n688-14">William Lee</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n688-15">George Dinsdale</rs>
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John<lb></lb>
Greene <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n688-16">Thomas Mossell</rs>
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and Isaac Lermitte good and lawful men of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65008_geo615">City of London</rs>
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<lb></lb>
aforesaid who being now here duly chosen sworn and charged to inquire for our said<lb></lb>
Lord the King when how and in what manner the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n688-17">Maxwell Maysmith</rs>
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came<lb></lb>
to his death say upon their Oath that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n688-18">Maxwell Maysmith</rs>
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not being of sound<lb></lb>
mind memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted on the twenty fourth day of April<lb></lb>
in the year aforesaid at the parish aforesaid in the Ward aforesaid in <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65008_geo616">London</rs>
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aforesaid a certain<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65008_geo617">pistol</rs>
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of the value of twelve pence loaded with Gunpowder and divers leader shot which he<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n688-19">Maxwell Naysmith</rs>
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in his night hand had and held to at and against the head of<lb></lb>
him the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n688-20">Maxwell Naysmith</rs>
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did then and there shoot off and discharge giving to<lb></lb>
himself then and there with the leaden shot aforesaid so shot off and discharged from the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65008_geo618">Pistol</rs>
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by force of the Gunpowder aforesaid one mortal wound in and upon the head of him the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n688-21">Maxwell Naysmith</rs>
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of the width of two inches and of the depth of four inches of which said<lb></lb>
mortal wound he the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n688-22">Maxwell Naysmith</rs>
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did then and there instantly die And so the<lb></lb>
Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n688-23">Maxwell Naysmith</rs>
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not being<lb></lb>
of sound mind memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted did shoot and kill<lb></lb>
himself In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n688-24">William Jackson</rs>
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the<lb></lb>
foreman of the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his fellows in their presence<lb></lb>
have to this Inquisition set their hands and seals the day year and place first above written</p>
<p n="689"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n689-1">Wm Jackson</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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