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being now here duly chosen sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord the King when
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how and in what manner the said Charon Duke de Sorrentine came to
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upon their Oath that the said Charon Duke de Sorrentine on the tenth day of
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ninth year aforesaid at the Parish aforesaid within
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of the Value of six pence Loaded with gunpowder and a leaden bullet
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against the head of himself
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discharge giving to himself then and there with the leaden bullet aforesaid
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discharge from the said
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the head of him the said
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Charon Duke de Sorrentine did
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and there die. and so the Jurors aforesaid
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oath aforesaid do say that the
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Charon Duke de Sorrentine not being of the
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memory and understanding
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ustic and distracted did shoot and kill
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