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An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
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King, at the Parish of Saint James
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within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter,
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, the Twentieth day of January in the Nineteenth 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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, 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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James Scott
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Thomas Hopkins
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Richard Collins
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Adam Ragg
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William
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Gilks
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John Sutton
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Francis Anderson
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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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Robert Stubbs
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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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Robert Stubbs
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not being of
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Sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted
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on the Eighteenth day of January in the Year aforesaid at the Parish
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and in the Liberty and County aforesaid, a certain Pistol charged
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with Gun powder and a leaden Bullet which he the said
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Robert
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then and there had and held in his right Hand to and
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against the left Breast of him the said
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Robert Stubbs
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did then and
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there shoot off and discharge by Means whereof he the said
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did then and there give unto himself with the leaden Bullet
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aforesaid so discharged and shot out of the Pistol aforesaid, by the
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force of the Gun Powder aforesaid, in and upon the left Breast of him
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the said
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one mortal Wound of the Breadth of one Inch
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and of the Death of five Inches, of which said mortal wound he the
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said
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Robert Stubbs
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from the said Eighteenth day of January in the Year
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aforesaid until the Twentieth day of the same Month and Year at the
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Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid did
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languish and languishing did live, on which said Twentieth day
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of January aforesaid at the Parish and in the LIberty and County
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aforesaid he the said
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Robert Stubbs
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of the mortal Wound aforesaid
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</
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did dye. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid
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</
lb
>
do say that the said
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Robert Stubbs
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not being of sound Mind Memory
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>
</
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>
and Understanding but lunatick and distracted in Manner and
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lb
>
</
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>
by the Means aforesaid did Kill himself. In Witness whereof as
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>
</
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>
well the said Coroner as the said
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type
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Edward Myers
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Foreman of the said
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lb
>
</
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>
Jurors on the behalf of himself and the rest of his said Fellows in their
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lb
>
</
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>
presence have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the
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lb
>
</
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>
Day Year and Place abovementioned.
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>
Tho. Prickard
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Coroner
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>
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Edwd. Myers Foreman
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>
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