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<p n="1167"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65223_geo1377">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65223_geo1378">County of <lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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to wit.</note>
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An Inquisition Intended taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King at the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65223_geo1379">Saint George Hanover Square</rs>
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within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65223_geo1380">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65223_geo1381">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the Sixth day of September 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_n1167-1">Thomas<lb></lb>
Prickard</rs>
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, Gentleman, <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65223_occ819">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_n1167-2">Frederick Thomas</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65223_occ820">Esquire</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon<lb></lb>
the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n1167-3">Robert Tombling</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n1167-4">Thomas Downes</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n1167-5">Paul Webster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n1167-6">Thomas Simmson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n1167-7">Thomas Shankster</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n1167-29">Henry<lb></lb>
McLaughlin</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n1167-8">Joseph Storer</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n1167-9">John Wallis</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n1167-10">Benjamin<lb></lb>
Couch</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n1167-11">James Frost</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n1167-12">George Elward</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n1167-13">Thomas Smith</rs>
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<lb></lb>
good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly<lb></lb>
chosen, who being 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_n1167-14">Frederick Thomas</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the Honourable <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n1167-15">Cosmo Gordon</rs>
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late of the Parish<lb></lb>
Liberty and County aforesaid not having the fear of God before his Eyes but being moved and<lb></lb>
seduced by the Instigation of the Devil on the fourth day of September in the Year aforesaid<lb></lb>
with Force and Arms at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid<lb></lb>
in and upon the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n1167-16">Frederick Thomas</rs>
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in the Peace of God and of our said Lord the King<lb></lb>
then and there being feloniously wilfully and of his Malice aforethought did make an<lb></lb>
Assault, And that the said Cosmo Gordon a certain Pistol of the Value of ten shillings<lb></lb>
charged and loaded with Gun powder and leaden Bullet which he the said Cosmo Gordon<lb></lb>
then and there had and held in his Right Hand, to and against the Body of him the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n1167-19">Frederick Thomas</rs>
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<lb></lb>
did then and there shoot off and discharge, by Means whereof he the said Cosmo Gordon feloniously<lb></lb>
wilfully and of his Malice aforethought did then and there give unto him the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n1167-21">Frederick Thomas</rs>
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<lb></lb>
with the leaden Bullet aforesaid, so as aforesaid shot off and discharged out of the Pistol aforesaid<lb></lb>
by the force of the Gunpowder aforesaid one mortal Wound on the Right side of the Belly into<lb></lb>
and through the Body of him the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n1167-22">Frederick Thomas</rs>
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of which said Mortal Wound he the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n1167-23">Frederick Thomas</rs>
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from the said fourth day of September in the Year aforesaid until the fifth day of<lb></lb>
the same Month in the same Year at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid did<lb></lb>
languish and lauguishing did live, on which said fifth day of September in the Year aforesaid he the <lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n1167-24">Frederick Thomas</rs>
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at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid of the Mortal<lb></lb>
Wound aforesaid did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the<lb></lb>
said Cosmo Gordon him the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n1167-26">Frederick Thomas</rs>
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in the Manner and by the Means aforesaid<lb></lb>
feloniously wilfully and of his Malice aforethought did Kill and Murder against the Peace<lb></lb>
of our said Lord the King his Crown and Dignity. And that the said Cosmo Gordon at the time of the <lb></lb>
committing the Felony and Murder aforesaid as at any time since, had no Goods or Chattels Lands<lb></lb>
or Tenements within the said Liberty or else where to the Knowledge or Notice of the said Jurors<lb></lb>
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n1167-28">Robert Tombling</rs>
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<lb></lb>
of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows in their presence<lb></lb>
have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day Year and Place abovementioned</p>
<p n="1168"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n1168-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<p n="1169"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65223_n1169-1">Robert Tombling</rs>
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