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An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
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King, at the Parish of
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within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter
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Westminster
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in the
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, the Fifteenth day of August in the Sixteenth 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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Thomas Prickard
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, Gentleman,
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Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of
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the Honble
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John Damer
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Esqr. then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
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John Lucas
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John Armitage
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Robert Evans
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Adams Wright
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William Eyre
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William Pearson
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Christopher
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Goulden
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Barnaby Darly
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Peter Hodgson
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Christopher Rositer
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Barnard Baker
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Francis
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Richardson
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Jeremiah Hawkes
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John Gilpin
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Joseph Holmden
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Walter
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Watkins
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Humphry Tomkinson
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John Clarke
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James Henley
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Joseph
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Withers
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Thomas Weston
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&
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William Aldridge
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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 John Damer came to
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his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said John Damer, not being of
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sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted
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on the said Fifteenth day of August in the Year aforesaid at the
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Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, a certain
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Pistol charged with Gunpowder and a leaden Bullet, which he the said
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John Damer then and there had and held in his Right Hand, to
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and against the Right side of the Head of him the said John Damer
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did then and there shoot off and discharge, by Means whereof
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he the said John Damer did then and there give unto himself with
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the Leaden Bullet aforesaid, so discharged and shot out of the Pistol
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aforesaid, by the force of the Gunpowder aforesaid, one mortal wound
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in and upon the rightside of the Head of him the said John Damer,
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of which said mortal wound he the said John Damer then and there
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instantly died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath
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aforesaid do say, that the said John Damer, not being of Sound
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Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick 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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John Lucas
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Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself
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and the rest of his Fellows, in their presence, have to this Inquisition
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set their Hands, and Seals the Day Year and Place first abovewritten.
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Foreman
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