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<p n="879"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">City and Liberty of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65210_geo690">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65210_geo691">County of Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
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An Inquisition Indented taken for Our Sovereign Lord<lb></lb>
the King at the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65210_geo692">Saint Jameswithin the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter<lb></lb>
of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65210_geo693">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65210_date147">Fifteenth<lb></lb>
day of May</rs>
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in the Tenth year of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lord George the<lb></lb>
Third by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the<lb></lb>
Faith and so forth before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65210_n879-1">Thomas Prickard</rs>
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Gentleman Coroner of Our said Lord the King for<lb></lb>
the said City and Liberty On View of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65210_n879-2">Robert Charles</rs>
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Esquire then and there lying<lb></lb>
dead upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65210_n879-99">Peter Lewis Perrin</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65210_n879-3">Thomas Storer</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65210_n879-4">William Granger</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65210_n879-5">John Tetlow</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65210_n879-6">James Cole</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65210_n879-7">George Cole</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65210_n879-8">Charles Stubbs</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65210_n879-9">Nathaniel Brown</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65210_n879-10">James Goostree</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65210_n879-11">John<lb></lb>
Holloway</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65210_n879-12">George Steuart</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65210_n879-13">John Stockman</rs>
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, good and lawfull Men of the said Liberty duly chosen<lb></lb>
who being then and there duly Sworn and charged to inquire for Our said Lord the King, when, how,<lb></lb>
and by what Means the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65210_n879-14">Robert Charles</rs>
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came to his Death, do upon their Oath<lb></lb>
say. That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65210_n879-15">Robert Charles</rs>
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not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but<lb></lb>
lunatick and distracted, on the Fourteenth day of May in the Year aforesaid at the Parish<lb></lb>
aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, in the Dwelling House of the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65210_n879-16">Robert<lb></lb>
Charles</rs>
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there situate, with a certain Razor made of Iron and Steel, which he the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65210_n879-17">Robert Charles</rs>
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then and there had and held in his left hand, the Throat or Gullet of him<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65210_n879-18">Robert Charles</rs>
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did then and there strike stab and penetrate, thereby then and there<lb></lb>
giving unto himself, with the Razor aforesaid, in and upon the Throat or Gullet of him the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65210_n879-19">Robert Charles</rs>
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one mortal Wound, of the Length of three Inches, and of the Depth of one<lb></lb>
Inch, of which said mortal Wound he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65210_n879-20">Robert Charles</rs>
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and there died. And so the<lb></lb>
Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65210_n879-21">Robert Charles</rs>
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, not<lb></lb>
being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted, in Manner<lb></lb>
and by the Means aforesaid, did kill himself. In Witness whereof as well the said<lb></lb>
Coroner, as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65210_n879-22">Peter Lewis</rs>
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Perrin Foreman of the said Jurors, on the 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 above written</p>
<p n="880"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65210_n880-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65210_occ262">Coroner</rs>
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</p>
<p n="881">P L Perrin<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Foreman</p>
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