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AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at The Parish
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our sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third
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Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
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Philip Bridgman
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good and lawful Men of the said County, duly chosen, and who being then and there duly
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sworn and charged to inquire, for our said Lord the King, when, how, and by what Means, the
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said John Dark came to his
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Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That some Person or Persons to the Jurors aforesaid
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as yet unknown not having the Fear of God before his her or their Eyes but being
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moved and seduced by the Instigation of the Devil on the Third Day of June in the
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Year aforesaid with Force and Arms at the
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in the County aforesaid
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in and upon the said John Dark in the Peace of God and of our said Lord the King
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then and there being feloniously wilfully and of his, her or their malice aforethought
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did make an Assault And That the said Person or Persons so as aforesaid as yet unknown
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a certain Horse Pistol of the Value of five Shillings loaded with Gun powder and a Logden
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Bullet which the said Person or Persons so as aforesaid unknown then and there had
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and held in his, her or their Hands to, at and against the said
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did then and
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there feloniously, wilfully and of his, her or their Malice aforethought shoot off and discharge
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And that the said Person or Persons so as aforesaid unknown did then and there give unto
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the said John Darkwith the
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aforesaid so shot off and discharged out of the
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aforesaid by the Force of the Gun powder aforesaid one mortal wound in and through
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the Body of him the said John Dark, Of which said mortal wound he the said
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then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said
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Person or Persons so as aforesaid unknown him the said John Dark in Manner and by the
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Means aforesaid feloniously wilfully and of his her or their Malice aforethought did kill and
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murder against the Peace of our said Lord the King his Crown and Dignity
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IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said
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the Foreman of the said Jurors, on the Behalf of himself and the Rest of his said Fellows, in
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their Presence, have, to this Inquisition, set their Hands and Seals, the Day and Year first
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above written.
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