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An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to say at the
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parish of Saint Sepulchre in the Ward of Lime Street in London aforesaid on the
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in the thirty
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third year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third by the Grace of God of Great
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Britain France and Ireland King defender of the faith and so forth before
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Price,
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aforesaid who being now here
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duly chosen sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord the King when how and in what
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manner the said
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came to his death say upon their Oath that the said John
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Dunbar on the sixth day of November in the year aforesaid at the parish and Ward aforesaid
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certain Pistol of the value of 12d loaded with Gunpower and a leader bullett which he the said
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in his right hand then and there had and hold to at and against they left side
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did then and there shoot off and discharge giving to himself then and
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there with the leaden bullet aforesaid so shott off and discharged from the said Pistol by force of the
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Gunpowder aforesaid one mortal Wound in and upon the left side of him the said
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of the
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length of one Inch and depth of three inches of which said mortal Wound the said
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John Dunbar
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from the said sixth
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day of November
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to the
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in the year aforesaid until the ninth day of the same month of November in the same year
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at the said parish
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On which said ninth day of November in the year aforesaid at the parish and Ward aforesaid in
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of the said mortal wound did die And so the Jurors aforesaid
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upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said
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John Dunbar
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not being of Sound mind memory and
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understanding but lunatic and distracted die shoot and kill himself In Witness whereof as well
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the said Coroner
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as the said Coroner
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as the said
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William Williams
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the foreman of the said Jurors
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on behalf of himself and the rest of his fellows in their presence have to this Inquisition set their hands
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and seals the day year and place first above written.
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