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<p n="838"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo717">Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo718">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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to wit.</note>
<lb></lb>
An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King, at the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo719">Saint Margaret<lb></lb>
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo720">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65212_date152">Seventh day of May</rs>
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in the Twelfth 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="WACWIC65212_n838-1">Thomas Prickard</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65212_occ237">Gentleman</rs>
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,<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="WACWIC65212_n838-2">John Vitu</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n838-3">Benjamin<lb></lb>
Baily</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n838-4">Joseph Cox</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n838-5">John Blanchard</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n838-6">Thomas Reader</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n838-7">James King</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n838-8">Thomas Hodgson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n838-9">James Mc. Intosh</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n838-10">William Mc. Cliesh</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n838-39">Henry<lb></lb>
List</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n838-11">John Sadler</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n838-12">William Gee</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n838-13">Richard Beadle</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n838-14">John<lb></lb>
Deards</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 <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n838-15">John Vitu</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
h is Death, do upon their Oath say , That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n838-16">John Vitu</rs>
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laboring under a<lb></lb>
grievous Disease of Body, to Wit, a Bilious Colick, and by reason of the<lb></lb>
violence of the said Disease being delirious and out of his Mind, on the<lb></lb>
Twenty third day of April in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in<lb></lb>
the Liberty and County aforesaid in the dwelling House of the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n838-17">John Vitu</rs>
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<lb></lb>
there situate, with a certain Knife made of Iron and Steel, which he the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n838-18">John Vitu</rs>
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then and there had and held in his Right Hand, the Belly of him<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n838-19">John Vitu</rs>
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did then and there strike stab and penetrate, thereby then<lb></lb>
and there giving unto himself the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n838-20">John Vitu</rs>
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, so being delirious and out<lb></lb>
of his Mind as aforesaid, with the Knife aforesaid, in and upon his Belly<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
mortal wound of the<obscured></obscured>
Depth of two<lb></lb>
Inches, of which said mortal wound he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n838-21">John Vitu</rs>
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from the said Twenty-<lb></lb>
-third day of April in the Year aforesaid until the Sixth day of May in the same Year at the Parish and in the Liberty and<lb></lb>
County aforesaid, did languish and languishing did live, on which said Sixth<lb></lb>
day of May in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish and in the Liberty and<lb></lb>
County aforesaid, he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n838-22">John Vitu</rs>
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of the mortal Wound aforesaid, did die.<lb></lb>
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n838-23">John Vitu</rs>
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, by Reason of the said Disease, being delirious and out of his<lb></lb>
Mind as aforesaid, in Man<obscured></obscured>
and by the<obscured></obscured>
aforesaid, did kill<lb></lb>
himself. In Witness<obscured></obscured>
hereof as well the said Coroner, as the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n838-24">Benjamin Baily</rs>
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foreman of the said Jurors on the behalf of himself<lb></lb>
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 abovewritten</p>
<p n="839"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n839-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65212_occ238">Coroner</rs>
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.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n839-47">Benn Baily</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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