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An Inquisition indented
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Le Bone
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Day of Feby in the 22d Year of the
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of Great Britain, France and Ireland, KING, Defender of
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KING, for the said County, on view of the body of
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Coleman,
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good and lawful Men of the said County duly chosen as by Law required, and who being then and there duly sworn
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and charged to enquire for our said Lord the KING, when, how, and by what means the said
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came to h is Death, Do upon their Oath say, That The said Luke
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Layton in the Thirteenth Day of February in the Year aforesaid being an
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of the Age of Eleven Years or thereabouts And being Walking along
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the Road in the Parish and County aforesaid It so happened That a certain
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n called a Fowling Piece which One
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Thomas
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William Richards then and there had
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and held under his Arm loaded with Gun Powder and Shot then and there accidentally
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casually and by Misfortune went off and was discharged By Means whereof
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did then and there received One Mortal Wound
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in and when the Body of him the said
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then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid
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upon their Oath aforesaid do say That the said
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in Manner
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and by the Means aforesaid accidentally casually and by Misfortune came
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to his Death And That the said Fowling Piece is of the Value of Two Shillings
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and Six pence and the Property and in the Possession of the said
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In Witness whereof, as well as the said Coroner, as the said Joseph Yeend the Foreman of
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the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows, in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their
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Hands and Seals the Day of Year first abovementioned
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