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An Inquisition Intended taken for our Sovereign Lord the
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good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
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chosen, who being 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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came to
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h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the Honourable
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late of the Parish
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Liberty and County aforesaid not having the fear of God before his Eyes but being moved and
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seduced by the Instigation of the Devil on the fourth day of September in the Year aforesaid
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with Force and Arms at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid
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in and upon the said
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in the Peace of God and of our said Lord the King
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then and there being feloniously wilfully and of his Malice aforethought did make an
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Assault, And that the said Cosmo Gordon a certain Pistol of the Value of ten shillings
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charged and loaded with Gun powder and leaden Bullet which he the said Cosmo Gordon
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then and there had and held in his Right Hand, to and against the Body of him the said
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did then and there shoot off and discharge, by Means whereof he the said Cosmo Gordon feloniously
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wilfully and of his Malice aforethought did then and there give unto him the said
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Frederick Thomas
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with the leaden Bullet aforesaid, so as aforesaid shot off and discharged out of the Pistol aforesaid
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by the force of the Gunpowder aforesaid one mortal Wound on the Right side of the Belly into
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and through the Body of him the said
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of which said Mortal Wound he the said
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Frederick Thomas
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from the said fourth day of September in the Year aforesaid until the fifth day of
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the same Month in the same Year at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid did
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languish and lauguishing did live, on which said fifth day of September in the Year aforesaid he the
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Frederick Thomas
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at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid of the Mortal
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Wound aforesaid did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the
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said Cosmo Gordon him the said
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Frederick Thomas
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in the Manner and by the Means aforesaid
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feloniously wilfully and of his Malice aforethought did Kill and Murder against the Peace
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of our said Lord the King his Crown and Dignity. And that the said Cosmo Gordon at the time of the
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committing the Felony and Murder aforesaid as at any time since, had no Goods or Chattels Lands
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or Tenements within the said Liberty or else where to the Knowledge or Notice of the said Jurors
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In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said
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Robert Tombling
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of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows in their presence
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have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day Year and Place abovementioned
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