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<p n="2059"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo2341">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
In the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo2342">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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, to wit,</note>
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<p n="2060">An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King at the Dwelling House of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n2060-1">James Ward</rs>
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the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo2343">Sign of the Crown & the two Chairmen</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
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<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo2345">Parish of St Anne Soho</rs>
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within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo2346">Collegiate Church<lb></lb>
of St. Peter, Westminister</rs>
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, in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo2347">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the twenty seventh day of October 1797<lb></lb>
in the Thirty eighth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third,<lb></lb>
by the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith,<lb></lb>
and so forth, before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n2060-2">Anthony Gell</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65237_occ1133">Esq.</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65237_occ1134">Coroner</rs>
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of our said Lord the King for the said City<lb></lb>
and Liberty, on View of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n2060-3">Humphrey Brewster</rs>
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then and there<lb></lb>
lying dead, upon the Oath of the several Jurors whose Names are here under written, and<lb></lb>
Seals affixed, good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly chosen, who being then and<lb></lb>
there duly sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the King, when, how, and by<lb></lb>
what Means the said Humphrey Brewster came to h is Death, do upon<lb></lb>
their Oath say that the said Humphrey Brewster not being of sound<lb></lb>
mind Memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted on the<lb></lb>
twenty sixth day of October in the year aforesaid at the Parish and in the<lb></lb>
the Liberty aforesaid, a certain pistol charged with Gun powder and a<lb></lb>
Leaden Bullet which he the said Humphrey Brewster then and there had<lb></lb>
and held in his right hand to & against the head of him Humphrey<lb></lb>
Brewster, did then & there shoot off and discharge by means whereof<lb></lb>
he the said Humphrey Brewster did then and there give into himself<lb></lb>
with the leaden Bullet aforesaid so discharged and shot out of the<lb></lb>
Pistol aforesaid by the force of the Gunpowder aforesaid in and<lb></lb>
upon the head of him the said Humphrey Brewster one mortal<lb></lb>
wound : of which said mortal wound he the said Humphrey<lb></lb>
Brewster then and there instantly died And so the Jurors<lb></lb>
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said<lb></lb>
Humphrey Brewster not being of sound mind Memory and<lb></lb>
understanding but lunatic and distracted in manner and by<lb></lb>
the means aforesaid did kill himself<lb></lb>
IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Jurors, have to this Inquisition<lb></lb>
set their Hands and Seals the Day, Year, and Place first above written.</p>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65237_occ1135">Coroner</rs>
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Besseld<lb></lb>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n2062-5">John Thenton</rs>
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<p n="2064">Richardson<lb></lb>
Wm Harr<obscured></obscured>
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