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<p n="1691"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1330">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1331">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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}<lb></lb>
to wit.</note>
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<p n="1692">An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King, at the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1332">Saint Anne<lb></lb>
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1333">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65213_date335">Eighteenth day of August</rs>
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in the Thirteenth Year<lb></lb>
of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great-Britain,<lb></lb>
France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1692-1">Thomas Prickard</rs>
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, Gentleman, <lb></lb>
Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of <lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1692-2">Joseph Smart</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1692-3">John Long</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1692-34">Docter Cowchor</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1692-4">John Grieve</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1692-5">Walter Williams</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1692-6">George Walls</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1692-7">Richard Whitehead</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1692-47">John Eichhorn</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1692-87">William Paull</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1692-8">George Dickenson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1692-9">James Unsworth</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1692-10">Alexander Tate</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1692-11">Richard Barnett</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1692-12">Christopher<lb></lb>
Cook</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1692-13">Walter Bannister</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1692-14">William Stevenson</rs>
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<lb></lb>
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="WACWIC65213_n1692-15">Joseph Smart</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Joseph Smart, not being of sound Mind<lb></lb>
Memory and Understanding, but Eunatick and Distracted, on the Seventeenth day of August in the Year aforesaid<lb></lb>
at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid a certain Pistol charged with Gum powder and a leadon<lb></lb>
Bullet which he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1692-17">Joseph Smart</rs>
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then and there had and held in his right hand to and against the<lb></lb>
right side men the Billy of him the Said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1692-18">Joseph Smart</rs>
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did then and there short off and Discharge, by<lb></lb>
means whereof he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1692-19">Joseph Smart</rs>
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did then and there give unto himself with the Leadon Bullet<lb></lb>
aforesaid so discharged and shot out of the Pistol aforesaid by the force of the Gum Powder aforesaid in and<lb></lb>
upon the right side near the Belly of him the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1692-20">Joseph Smart</rs>
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one mortal<obscured></obscured>
the breadth of<lb></lb>
half on inch and of the Dypth of Lis inches or more of which said Mortal wound to the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1692-21">Joseph<lb></lb>
Smart</rs>
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then and there in the Space of One Hour Died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath<lb></lb>
aforesaid do say that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1692-22">Joseph Smart</rs>
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not being of Sound Mind Memory and Understanding but<lb></lb>
Lunatic and Distracted in manner and by the means aforesaid did Kill himself. In Witness whereof<lb></lb>
as well the said Coroner as the Foreman of the Jurors aforesaid on behalf of himself and the rest<lb></lb>
of the Jurors have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day Year and at the Place<lb></lb>
abovementioned.</p>
<p n="1693"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1693-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65213_occ393">Coroner</rs>
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<p n="1694"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1694-26">Jno Long</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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