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<p n="509"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">London</note>
An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo473">London</rs>
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(that is<lb></lb>
to say) at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo474">Parish of Saint Bridget otherwise Bride</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo475">Ward of Farringdon</rs>
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without<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo476">London</rs>
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aforesaid on the <rs type="date" id="LMCLIC65010_date46">first day of May in the thirty seventh<del>sixth</del>
year of the reign of<lb></lb>
our Sovereign Lord George the third King of Great Britain</rs>
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and so forth before <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n509-30">Thomas<lb></lb>
Shelton</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65010_occ250">Coroner</rs>
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of our said Lord the King for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo477">City of London</rs>
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and Borough<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo478">Southwark</rs>
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on view of the body of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n509-3">Joseph Railton</rs>
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now here lying dead by the oath<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n509-4">William Wright</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n509-5">Robert Herring</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n509-6">John Mallam</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n509-7">Charles Bonner</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n509-8">Harvey Walklate<lb></lb>
Mortimer</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n509-9">Joseph Brassbridge</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n509-10">Robert Waithman</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n509-11">Benjamin Varley</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n509-12">Robert Tangate</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n509-13">John Curtis</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n509-14">Thomas Morton</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n509-15">Thomas Reeves</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n509-16">William Lambert</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n509-17">Henry James</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n509-18">George<lb></lb>
Bowen,</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n509-19">John Tyce</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n509-20">Nathaniel Stock</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n509-21">John Willis</rs>
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, good and lawful men of the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo479">City of London</rs>
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aforesaid who being now here duly chosen sworn and charged to<lb></lb>
inquire for our said Lord the King when how and in what manner the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n509-22">Joseph<lb></lb>
Railton</rs>
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came to his death say upon their oath that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n509-23">Joseph Railton</rs>
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on<lb></lb>
the thirtieth day of April in the year aforesaid at the Parish and Ward aforesaid in London<lb></lb>
aforesaid not being of sound mind memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted<lb></lb>
a certain pistol of the value of six pence loaded with gunpowder and leaden bullet<lb></lb>
which he the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n509-24">Joseph Railton</rs>
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in his right hand then and there had and held<lb></lb>
to at and against the head of himself the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n509-25">Joseph Railton</rs>
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did then and there shoot<lb></lb>
off and discharge giving to himself then and there with the said leaden bullet so shot<lb></lb>
off and discharged from the said pistol by force of the gunpowder aforesaid one mortal<lb></lb>
wound in and upon the said head of him the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n509-26">Joseph Railton</rs>
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of the width of half an<lb></lb>
inch and of the depth of five inches of which said mortal wound he the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n509-27">Joseph<lb></lb>
Railton</rs>
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did then and there die.And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do<lb></lb>
say that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n509-28">Joseph Railton</rs>
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not being of sound mind memory and understanding<lb></lb>
but lunatic and distracted did shoot and kill himself In Witness whereof as well the<lb></lb>
said Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n509-29">William Wright</rs>
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the <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65010_occ251">foreman</rs>
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of the said Jurors on behalf of<lb></lb>
himself and the rest of his fellows in their presence have to this Inquisition set<lb></lb>
their hands and seals the day year and place first abovewritten.<lb></lb>
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<p n="510"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n510-1">Wm Wright</rs>
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