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<p n="277"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65223_geo324">Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65223_geo325">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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.}<lb></lb>
to wit.</note>
<lb></lb>
An Inquisition Intended, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65223_geo326">Parish of St. George Hanover Square</rs>
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<lb></lb>
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65223_geo327">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65223_geo328">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the Eighth day of March in the twenty third<lb></lb>
Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, of<lb></lb>
Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n277-1">Thomas<lb></lb>
Prickard</rs>
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, Gentleman, <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65223_occ194">Coroner</rs>
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of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on<lb></lb>
View of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n277-22">William Skrine</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65223_occ195">Esqr</rs>
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. then and there lying dead, upon<lb></lb>
the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n277-2">Richard Seccombe</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n277-3">Peter Henderson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n277-4">Richard Barnett</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n277-5">Joseph<lb></lb>
Wood</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n277-6">Joseph Gerard</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n277-7">Thomas Lyne</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n277-8">George Michell</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n277-9">George Allen</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n277-10">George Darling</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n277-11">Edward Johns</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n277-12">George Warriner</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n277-13">Alexander Weatherly</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="WACWIC65223_n277-14">William Skrine</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n277-15">William Skrine</rs>
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, not<lb></lb>
being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but<lb></lb>
lunatick and distracted, on the said Eighth day of March in<lb></lb>
the Year aforesaid, at the Parish and in the Liberty and<lb></lb>
County aforesaid, a certain Pistol charged with Gun powder<lb></lb>
and a leaden Bullet, to and against the Right side of the Head<lb></lb>
of him the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n277-16">William Skrine</rs>
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did then and there shoot off<lb></lb>
and discharge, by Means whereof he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n277-17">William Skrine</rs>
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<lb></lb>
did then and there give unto himself with the leaden Bullet<lb></lb>
aforesaid, so discharged and shot out of the Pistol aforesaid<lb></lb>
by the force of the Gunpowder aforesaid in and upon the<lb></lb>
Right side of the Head of him the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n277-18">William Skrine</rs>
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, one<lb></lb>
Mortal Wound, of which said Mortal Wound he the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n277-19">William Skrine</rs>
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then and there instantly died. And so<lb></lb>
the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n277-20">William Skrine</rs>
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, not being of sound Mind Memory<lb></lb>
and Understanding but lunatick and distracted in Manner<lb></lb>
and by the Means aforesaid did kill himself. In Witness<lb></lb>
whereof as well the said Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n277-21">Richard Seccombe</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65223_occ196">Foreman</rs>
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of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and<lb></lb>
the rest of his Fellows, in their presence, have to this<lb></lb>
Inquisition set their Hands and Seals, the Day Year<lb></lb>
and Place abovewritten</p>
<p n="278"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n278-1">Tho Prickard</rs>
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</p>
<p n="279">Richd Seccombe<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Foreman</p>
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