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aforesaid who being now here duly chosen sworn and charged to
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inquire for our said Lord the King when how and in what manner the said
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Joseph
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the thirtieth day of April in the year aforesaid at the Parish and Ward aforesaid in London
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aforesaid not being of sound mind memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted
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a certain pistol of the value of six pence loaded with gunpowder and leaden bullet
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in his right hand then and there had and held
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did then and there shoot
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lb
>
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off and discharge giving to himself then and there with the said leaden bullet so shot
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lb
>
</
lb
>
off and discharged from the said pistol by force of the gunpowder aforesaid one mortal
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lb
>
</
lb
>
wound in and upon the said head of him the said
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Joseph Railton
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of the width of half an
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lb
>
</
lb
>
inch and of the depth of five inches of which said mortal wound he the said
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Joseph
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>
Railton
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=
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>
did then and there die.And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do
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>
</
lb
>
say that the said
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Joseph Railton
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=
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not being of sound mind memory and understanding
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lb
>
</
lb
>
but lunatic and distracted did shoot and kill himself In Witness whereof as well the
<
lb
>
</
lb
>
said Coroner as the said
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rs
type
=
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id
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>
William Wright
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the
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foreman
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of the said Jurors on behalf of
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lb
>
</
lb
>
himself and the rest of his fellows in their presence have to this Inquisition set
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lb
>
</
lb
>
their hands and seals the day year and place first abovewritten.
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>
</
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n
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Wm Wright
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</
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