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An Inquitition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
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King, at the Parish of
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, the
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Thirteenth day of May
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in the Eleventh 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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, Gentleman,
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Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of
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Jenison Shafto
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Esquire then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
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James
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Agnew
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William Flanagan
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John Thomas
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Thomas Pugh
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Edward Reynolds
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John Ridley
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James Lock
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Conden Forbet
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John Jarvis
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John Bland
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William Jump
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Edward
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Kightley
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John Gale
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Thomas Potts
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William Troughton
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John Dod
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Christopher James
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Matthew Snowden
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Richard Savage
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Evan Morris
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John Menies
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,
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William Scarbrough
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David Owen
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and
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William Smawley
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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 Jenison Shafto came to
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his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Jenison Shafto laboring under a
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grievous Disease of Body, to Wit, a Fever, and by reason of the violence of the
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said Disease, being delirious and out of his Mind, on the said Thirteenth
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day of may in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish and in the Liberty and
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County aforesaid, a certain Pistol charged with Gunpowder and a leaden
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Bullet which he the said Jenison Shafto then and there had and held in his
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right Hand, to and against the Right side of the Head of him the said
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Jenison Shafto, so delirious and out of his Mind as aforesaid, did then
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and there Shoot off and discharge, by Means whereof he the said Jenison
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Shafto did then and there give unto himself, so delirious and out of
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his Mind, with the leaden Bullet aforesaid, so discharged and shot out
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of the Pistol aforesaid, by the force of the Gunpowder aforesaid, in and
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through the Head of him the said Jenison Shafto, one mortal Wound, of
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which said mortal Wound to the said Jenison Shafto then and there
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instantly died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid
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do say, that the said Jenison Shafto, being delirious and out of his Mind
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as aforesaid, by reason of the Fever aforesaid, in Manner and by the
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Means aforesaid, did kill himself. In Witness where of as well
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the said Coroner as the said James Agnew Foreman of the said
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Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows, in their
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presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals, the Day
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Year and Place first above written
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Tho. Prickard
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James Agneto
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Foreman
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