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AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
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good and lawful Men of the said County, duly chosen, and who being then and there duly
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sworn and charged to inquire, for our said Lord the King, when, how, and by what Means, the
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not being of sound Mind, Memory
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and understanding but Lunatic and distracted on the second Day of March in the Year aforesaid
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in the County aforesaid One End of a piece of String to the
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Trigger of a Gun loaded with Gun powder and Two Leaden Bullets and the other End thereof to the
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Foot Post of a Bed did fix, tye and fasten And the said Gun to at and against the Body of
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him the said
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did then and there shoot off and discharge thereby then and there giving
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unto himself with the Leaden Bulletts aforesaid so shot off and discharged out of the said Gun
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by Force of the Gun powder aforesaid One Mortal Wound in and upon the Right Side of the
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Belly which penetrated through the Back of him the said
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from the said second day of March in the Year aforesaid
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untill the Third Day of the same month in the same Year at the Parish aforesaid in the
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to wit in a certain Hospital there situate called
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Languishing did live on which said third Day of March in the Year aforesaid he the said
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did Die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say That the said John
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Nixon not being of sound Mind, Memory and understanding but Lunatic and distracted
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in manner and by the means aforesaid did kill himself
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IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said
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the Foreman of the said Jurors, on the Behalf of himself and the Rest of his said Fellows, in
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their Presence, have, to this Inquisition, set their Hands and Seals, the Day and Year first
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