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<p n="1571"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo1985">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo1986">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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to wit. </note>
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An Inquitition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King, at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo1987">Parish of Saint Paul Covent Garden</rs>
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within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo1988">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo1989">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the Twenty sixth day of September in the thirty first <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="WACWIC65231_n1571-1">Thomas<lb></lb>
Prickard</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65231_occ1554">Gentleman</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65231_occ1555">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="WACWIC65231_n1571-2">John Gibson</rs>
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then and there <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65231_occ1556">lying dead</rs>
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, upon <lb></lb>
the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1571-26">Charles Bewer</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1571-3">Thomas Summonds</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1571-4">James Cook</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1571-5">John Blackwell</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1571-6">Henry Vint</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1571-7">John Twigg</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1571-8">Henry Platt</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1571-9">Joseph Withers</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1571-10">John Lee</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1571-11">Barnard Baker</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1571-12">Isaac Froome</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1571-13">William Hill</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1571-14">Thomas Warren</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1571-15">Ephraim<lb></lb>
Goatby</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1571-16">Nathaniel Morgan</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1571-17">Edward Roberts</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1571-18">Daniel Kelly</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1571-19">John Bayley</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="WACWIC65231_n1571-20">John Gibson</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1571-21">John Gibson</rs>
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not being of sound<lb></lb>
Mind memory and understanding but Lunatick and distracted on the said Twenty<lb></lb>
sixty day of September in the Year aforesaid at the said Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo1990">St. Paul Covent<lb></lb>
Garden</rs>
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within the Liberty and County aforesaid with a certain Knife made of<lb></lb>
Iron and Steel which he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1571-22">John Gibson</rs>
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then and then had and held in his<lb></lb>
right Hand The Throat or Gullat of him the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1571-23">John Gibson</rs>
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did strike state<lb></lb>
and penitrate thereby then and there giving unto himself with the Knife<lb></lb>
aforesaid one mortal wound of the Length of Five Inches and of the Depth<lb></lb>
of One Inch of which said mortal Wound he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1571-24">John Gilson</rs>
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then and<lb></lb>
there instantly died. And so the Jurors aforesaid, upon their Oath aforesaid<lb></lb>
do say that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1571-25">John Gibson</rs>
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not being of sound Mind Memory and<lb></lb>
understanding but <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65231_occ1557">Lunatick</rs>
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and distracted in manner and by the means<lb></lb>
aforesaid did<obscured></obscured>
ill himself</p>
<p n="1572">In Witness whereof as well the said<lb></lb>
Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1572-1">Charles Bower</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65231_occ1558">Foreman</rs>
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of the said Jurors on the<lb></lb>
behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows in their presence have to<lb></lb>
this Inquisition set their Hands and seals the Day Year and Place<lb></lb>
abovementioned</p>
<p n="1573"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n1573-1">Tho. Prichard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65231_occ1559">Coroner</rs>
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</p>
<p n="1574">Bower Foreman</p>
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