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<p n="138"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65219_geo148">Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65219_geo149">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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.}<lb></lb>
to wit. </note>
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An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King, at the Parish of Saint James<lb></lb>
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65219_geo150">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65219_geo151">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the Twentieth day of January in the Nineteenth 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="WACWIC65219_n138-1">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="WACWIC65219_n138-2">Robert Stubbs</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n138-3">Edward<lb></lb>
Myers</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n138-25">Cornelius Barns</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n138-4">Edward Boswell</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n138-5">Richard Mitchell</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n138-6">Alexander Simpson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n138-26">Samuel Haws</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n138-27">David Breadshaw</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n138-7">William Smith</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n138-8">James Scott</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n138-9">Thomas Hopkins</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n138-10">Richard Collins</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n138-11">Adam Ragg</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n138-12">William<lb></lb>
Gilks</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n138-13">John Sutton</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n138-14">Francis Anderson</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="WACWIC65219_n138-15">Robert Stubbs</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
h is Death, do upon their Oath say , That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n138-16">Robert Stubbs</rs>
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not being of<lb></lb>
Sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted<lb></lb>
on the Eighteenth day of January in the Year aforesaid at the Parish<lb></lb>
and in the Liberty and County aforesaid, a certain Pistol charged<lb></lb>
with Gun powder and a leaden Bullet which he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n138-17">Robert<lb></lb>
Stubbs</rs>
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then and there had and held in his right Hand to and<lb></lb>
against the left Breast of him the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n138-18">Robert Stubbs</rs>
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did then and<lb></lb>
there shoot off and discharge by Means whereof he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n138-19">Robert<lb></lb>
Stubbs</rs>
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did then and there give unto himself with the leaden Bullet<lb></lb>
aforesaid so discharged and shot out of the Pistol aforesaid, by the<lb></lb>
force of the Gun Powder aforesaid, in and upon the left Breast of him<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n138-20">Robert Stubbs</rs>
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one mortal Wound of the Breadth of one Inch<lb></lb>
and of the Death of five Inches, of which said mortal wound he the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n138-21">Robert Stubbs</rs>
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from the said Eighteenth day of January in the Year<lb></lb>
aforesaid until the Twentieth day of the same Month and Year at the<lb></lb>
Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid did<lb></lb>
languish and languishing did live, on which said Twentieth day<lb></lb>
of January aforesaid at the Parish and in the LIberty and County<lb></lb>
aforesaid he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n138-22">Robert Stubbs</rs>
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of the mortal Wound aforesaid<lb></lb>
did dye. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid<lb></lb>
do say that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n138-23">Robert Stubbs</rs>
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not being of sound Mind Memory<lb></lb>
and Understanding but lunatick and distracted in Manner and<lb></lb>
by the Means aforesaid did Kill himself. In Witness whereof as<lb></lb>
well the said Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n138-24">Edward Myers</rs>
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Foreman of the said<lb></lb>
Jurors on the behalf of himself and the rest of his said Fellows in their<lb></lb>
presence have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the<lb></lb>
Day Year and Place abovementioned.</p>
<p n="139"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65219_n139-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65219_occ50">Coroner</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Edwd. Myers Foreman</p>
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