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An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King as London, that is to say, at
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aforesaid who being now here duly chosen sworn and charged
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to inquire for our said Lord the King when how and in what manner the said Alexander Shairp came to his death say
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when their oath that the said Alexander Shairp not being of sound mind memory and understanding but lunatic and directed
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on the seventeenth day of February in the year aforesaid a certain Gun of the value of one shilling leaded with Gunpowder and
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caden bullet which he the said Alexander Shairp in Cash his hands their and there had and held to at and against himself
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then and then did shoot off and discharge Giving to himself then and their with the Caden Bullet aforesaid so shot off and
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discharged from the said Gun by force of the Gunpowder aforesaid one mortal wound in and upon the right side of the head of him the
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said Alexander Shairp of the breadth of one Inch and of the depth of three Inches Of which said mortal wound he the said Alexander
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Sharip did then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said Alexander Shairp not being
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of sound mind memory and understanding best lunatic and districted in manner and by the man aforesaid did kill himself
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In Witnesses whereof as well the said Coroner as the said William Matthew Raikes the foreman of the said Jurors on behalf of himself
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and the rest of his Fellow in their presence have to this Inquisition set their hands and seals the day year and place first
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