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<p n="645"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65211_geo511">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65211_geo512">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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to wit. </note>
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An Inquitition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King, at the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65211_geo513">Saint James<lb></lb>
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65211_geo514">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65211_date122">Thirteenth day of May</rs>
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in the Eleventh Year<lb></lb>
of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great-Britain,<lb></lb>
France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n645-1">Thomas Prickard</rs>
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, Gentleman,<lb></lb>
Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of <lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n645-28">Jenison Shafto</rs>
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Esquire then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n645-2">James<lb></lb>
Agnew</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n645-3">William Flanagan</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n645-4">John Thomas</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n645-5">Thomas Pugh</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n645-6">Edward Reynolds</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n645-7">John Ridley</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n645-8">James Lock</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n645-29">Conden Forbet</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n645-9">John Jarvis</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n645-10">John Bland</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n645-11">William Jump</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n645-12">Edward<lb></lb>
Kightley</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n645-13">John Gale</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n645-14">Thomas Potts</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n645-15">William Troughton</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n645-16">John Dod</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n645-17">Christopher James</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n645-18">Matthew Snowden</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n645-19">Richard Savage</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n645-20">Evan Morris</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n645-278">John Menies</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n645-21">William Scarbrough</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n645-22">David Owen</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n645-81">William Smawley</rs>
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, Good and Lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly<lb></lb>
Chosen, who being then and there duly sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the<lb></lb>
King, when, how, and by what Means the said Jenison Shafto came to<lb></lb>
his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Jenison Shafto laboring under a<lb></lb>
grievous Disease of Body, to Wit, a Fever, and by reason of the violence of the<lb></lb>
said Disease, being delirious and out of his Mind, on the said Thirteenth<lb></lb>
day of may in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish and in the Liberty and<lb></lb>
County aforesaid, a certain Pistol charged with Gunpowder and a leaden<lb></lb>
Bullet which he the said Jenison Shafto then and there had and held in his<lb></lb>
right Hand, to and against the Right side of the Head of him the said<lb></lb>
Jenison Shafto, so delirious and out of his Mind as aforesaid, did then<lb></lb>
and there Shoot off and discharge, by Means whereof he the said Jenison<lb></lb>
Shafto did then and there give unto himself, so delirious and out of<lb></lb>
his Mind, with the leaden Bullet aforesaid, so discharged and shot out<lb></lb>
of the Pistol aforesaid, by the force of the Gunpowder aforesaid, in and<lb></lb>
through the Head of him the said Jenison Shafto, one mortal Wound, of<lb></lb>
which said mortal Wound to the said Jenison Shafto then and there<lb></lb>
instantly died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid<lb></lb>
do say, that the said Jenison Shafto, being delirious and out of his Mind<lb></lb>
as aforesaid, by reason of the Fever aforesaid, in Manner and by the<lb></lb>
Means aforesaid, did kill himself. In Witness where of as well<lb></lb>
the said Coroner as the said James Agnew Foreman of the said<lb></lb>
Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows, in their<lb></lb>
presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals, the Day<lb></lb>
Year and Place first above written</p>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n646-85">James Agneto</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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