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An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
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King, at the Parish of Saint James
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within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter
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, the Eighteenth day of January in the Twentieth Year
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of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great-Britain,
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France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith and so forth, before
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, Gentleman,
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Thomas Ireland
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Abraham Lyon
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John Fairbeard
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Thomas Metcalf
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John
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John Rhodes
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Richard Suett
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Thomas Fardley
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Samuel Collett
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William Windsor
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good and Lawfull Men of the said Liberty duly
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chosen, who being then and there duty 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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Thomas Ireland
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came to
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his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said
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, Not
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being of Sound Mind Memory and Understanding but lunatic
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and distracted on the thirteenth day of January in the Year aforesaid
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at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid in the
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Dwelling House of
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Thomas Atkinson
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there situate with a certain Razor
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made of Iron and Steel which he the said
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then and
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there had and held in his Right Hand the Throat or Gullet of him
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the said
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did then and there strike stab and
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penetrate, thereby then and there giving unto himself the said
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with the Razer aforesaid in and upon the Throat
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or Gullet of him the said
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one mortal wound of the
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Length of three Inches and of the depth of one Inch, of which said
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mortal wound he the said
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from the said thirteenth day
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of January in the Year aforesaid until the Seventeenth day of the
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same Month and Year at the Parish and in the Liberty and County
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aforesaid did Languish and Languishing did live, on which said Seventeenth
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day of January he the said
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Thomas Ireland
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of the Mortal wound aforesaid
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there did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say
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that the said
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Thomas Ireland
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not being of sound Mind Memory 7 understanding
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but lunatic and discharge in Manner and by the means aforesaid did kill
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himself. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said
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Benjamin
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Boydon
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Foreman of the said Jurors, on the on behalf of Himself and the rest of his
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said Fellows, in their Presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands, and
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Seals the Day Year and Place abovementioned.
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Thos. Prickard
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Benja Boydon
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Foreman
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