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<p n="1167"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo1258">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo1259">County of <lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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}<lb></lb>
to Wit.</note>
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<p n="1168">An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King, at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo1260">Parish of St. Mary Le Strand</rs>
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<lb></lb>
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo1261">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo1262">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the Sixteenth day of September in the Sixteenth 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="WACWIC65216_n1168-1">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="WACWIC65216_n1168-2">John Pritchard</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1168-3">Thomas Gale</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1168-31">Thomas Stree</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1168-4">Anthony Young</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1168-5">Alexander Wilson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1168-6">Robert Evans</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1168-7">William Darling</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1168-8">Daniel Wilshen</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1168-9">Samuel Roome</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1168-29">george Eastwood</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1168-10">Jacob Allen</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1168-30">Robert Blandston</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1168-11">John Gold</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1168-28">Geroge Clithers</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1168-27">Richard Gilham</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1168-12">Samuel Jones</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1168-13">Thomas Morgan</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1168-14">William Purse</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1168-15">John Roberts</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1168-16">William Warburton</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1168-17">William Mason</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1168-26">Wm. Smith</rs>
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, 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="WACWIC65216_n1168-18">John Pritchard</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
his Death, do upon their Oath say, that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1168-19">John Pritchard</rs>
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not being of sound<lb></lb>
Mind Memory and Understanding but lunatick and distracted on the Fifteenth<lb></lb>
day of September in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty and<lb></lb>
County aforesaid, a Certain Pistol charged with Gunpowder and a leaden<lb></lb>
Bullett, to and against the right side of the Head of him the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1168-20">John<lb></lb>
Pritchard</rs>
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did then and there shoot off and discharge, by reason whereof<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1168-21">John Pritchard</rs>
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did then and there give unto himself with the<lb></lb>
leaden Bullet aforesaid so discharged and shot out of the Pestol aforesaid<lb></lb>
by the force of the Gun Powder aforesaid one mortal Wound in and through<lb></lb>
the Head of him the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1168-22">John Pritchard</rs>
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, of which said Mortal Wound<lb></lb>
he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1168-23">John Pritchard</rs>
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then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid<lb></lb>
upon their oath aforesaid do say, that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1168-24">John Pritchard</rs>
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, not being<lb></lb>
of sound Mind Memory and understanding, but lunatick and distracted.<lb></lb>
in Manner and by the Means aforesaid, did kill himself. In witness<lb></lb>
whereof as well the said Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1168-25">Thomas Gale</rs>
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Foreman of<lb></lb>
the said Jurors, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and<lb></lb>
Seals, the Day Year and Place first above written</p>
<p n="1169"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1169-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65216_occ365">Coroner</rs>
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<lb></lb>
F. Gale Foreman</p>
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