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An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
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King, at the Parish of
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Seventh day of May
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in the Twelfth 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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Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
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Benjamin
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Joseph Cox
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John Blanchard
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Thomas Reader
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James King
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Thomas Hodgson
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William Mc. Cliesh
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Henry
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List
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John Sadler
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William Gee
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Richard Beadle
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John
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Deards
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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
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John Vitu
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came to
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h is Death, do upon their Oath say , That the said
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John Vitu
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laboring under a
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grievous Disease of Body, to Wit, a Bilious Colick, and by reason of the
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violence of the said Disease being delirious and out of his Mind, on the
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Twenty third day of April in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in
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the Liberty and County aforesaid in the dwelling House of the said
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John Vitu
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there situate, with a certain Knife made of Iron and Steel, which he the said
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John Vitu
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then and there had and held in his Right Hand, the Belly of him
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the said
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John Vitu
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did then and there strike stab and penetrate, thereby then
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and there giving unto himself the said
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John Vitu
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, so being delirious and out
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of his Mind as aforesaid, with the Knife aforesaid, in and upon his Belly
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mortal wound of the
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Depth of two
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Inches, of which said mortal wound he the said
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John Vitu
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from the said Twenty-
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-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
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County aforesaid, did languish and languishing did live, on which said Sixth
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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, he the said
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John Vitu
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of the mortal Wound aforesaid, did die.
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And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said
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John Vitu
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, by Reason of the said Disease, being delirious and out of his
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Mind as aforesaid, in Man
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aforesaid, did kill
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himself. In Witness
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hereof as well the said Coroner, as the said
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Benjamin Baily
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foreman of the said Jurors on the behalf of himself
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and the rest of his Fellows, in their presence, have to this Inquisition set
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their Hands and Seals, the Day Year and Place first abovewritten
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Benn Baily
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Foreman
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