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<p n="1734"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65229_geo1675">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65229_geo1676">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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to wit.</note>
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An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King at The Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65229_geo1677">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="WACWIC65229_geo1678">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65229_geo1679">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the twenty first day of September in the twenty ninth<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="WACWIC65229_n1734-1">Thomas<lb></lb>
Prickard</rs>
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, Gentleman, Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on<lb></lb>
View of the Body of Anthony D Polier then and there lying dead, upon<lb></lb>
the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65229_n1734-2">David Wernham</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65229_n1734-3">William Hearn</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65229_n1734-4">John Price</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65229_n1734-5">Daniel Salmon</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65229_n1734-6">John Helm</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65229_n1734-7">Alexander Holliday</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65229_n1734-8">John<lb></lb>
Cook</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65229_n1734-9">Thomas Burgess</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65229_n1734-10">Henry Allison</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65229_n1734-11">Thomas Hudson</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65229_n1734-12">John<lb></lb>
Butler</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65229_n1734-13">William Storey</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="WACWIC65229_n1734-14">Anthony D. Polier</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
h is Death, do upon their Oath say That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65229_n1734-17">Anthony D'Polier</rs>
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not being<lb></lb>
of sound Mind Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted<lb></lb>
on the Twentieth day of September in the Year aforesaid at the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65229_geo1680">Parish of St. George</rs>
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within the Liberty and County<lb></lb>
aforesaid a certain Pistol charged with Gun powder and a Leaden Bullet<lb></lb>
which he the said Anthony D. Polier then and there had and held in his<lb></lb>
right Hand to and against the Head of him the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65229_n1734-15">Anthony D. Polier</rs>
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Did then and there shoot off and discharge by means whereof he the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65229_n1734-16">Anthony D. Polier</rs>
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did then and there give unto himself with the leaden<lb></lb>
Bullet aforesaid so discharged and shot out of the Pistol aforesaid, by the<lb></lb>
Force of the Gunpowder aforesaid in and upon the Head of him the said<lb></lb>
Anthony D. Polier One Mortal Wound and Fracture of which said<lb></lb>
Mortal Wound and Fracture he the said Anthony D. Polier then and<lb></lb>
there instantly died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath<lb></lb>
aforesaid do say that the said Anthony D. Polier not being of sound Mind<lb></lb>
Memory and Understanding but Lunatick and distracted in manner and<lb></lb>
by the means aforesaid did kill himself</p>
<p n="1735">In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65229_n1735-1">David Wernham</rs>
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Foreman of the said Jurors on the behalf<lb></lb>
of himself and the rest of his Fellows in their presence have to this<lb></lb>
Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day Year and Place abovementioned</p>
<p n="1736"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65229_n1736-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<p n="1737"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65229_n1737-1">David Wernham</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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