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An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
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Twelfth day of October
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in the Eighth Year
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of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great-Britain,
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France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before
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Thomas Prickard
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Richard Raine
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
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William
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John Catmore
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John Cribb
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James Taff
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Thomas
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Magrath
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John Whitfield
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John Hadley
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Charles Taylor
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Edward Brankinton
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John Miller
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Christopher Gumm
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John Morris
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Charles Wyatt
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John Smith
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Hugh Atkinson
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and
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Richard Phillips
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good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
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chosen, who being then and there duly sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the
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King, when, how, and by what Means the said Richard Raine came to
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h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Richard Raine not being of sound
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Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted, on the Eleventh day
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of October in the Year aforesaid at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County
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aforesaid, in the Dwelling House of
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Hannah Poole
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there situate, with a certain Case Knife
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made of Iron and Steel, which he the said Richard Raine then and there had and held in
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his Right Hand, the Throat or Gullet of him the said Richard Raine did then and there
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strike stab and penetrate, thereby then and there giving unto himself the said Richard
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Raine, with the Knife aforesaid, in and upon the Throat or Gullet of him the said
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Richard Raine one mortal Wound of the Length of three Inch
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and of the depth of
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one Inch, of which said mortal Wound he the said Richard Raine then and there
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died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said
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Richard Raine, not being of of sound Mind Memory and Under
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lunatick and distracted, in Manner and by the Means of
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himself. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner
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William Birks
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Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf
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the rest of his Fellows, in their presence have to this Inquisition set their
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Hands and Seals, the Day Year and Place first above written
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Tho. Prickard
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rs
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Coroner
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Wm. Birks
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Foreman
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p
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</
div1
>
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