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<note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65211_geo594">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65211_geo595">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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} to wit </note>
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<p n="764">An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King, at the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65211_geo596">Saint James<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="WACWIC65211_geo597">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65211_date147">Twenty fourth day of May</rs>
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in the Eleventh 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="WACWIC65211_n764-1">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="WACWIC65211_n764-2">Thomas Norman</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n764-3">George<lb></lb>
Heming</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n764-279">Joseph Richard</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n764-4">Jarvis Wells</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n764-5">William Dignell</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n764-29">William Cardick,</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n764-6">George<lb></lb>
Pearce</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n764-7">William Holmes</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n764-8">Samuel Wood</rs>
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<interp inst="WACWIC65211_n764-8" type="surname" value="Wood"></interp>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n764-9">Thomas Fowler</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n764-10">William Harvey</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n764-11">James-<lb></lb>
Mackenzie</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n764-12">John Lyell</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n764-13">Michael Thackwaite</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n764-14">James Simmons</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n764-15">James Adams</rs>
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, -<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n764-273">Lawrence Higgins</rs>
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<interp inst="WACWIC65211_n764-273" type="surname" value="Higgins"></interp>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n764-27">Samuel Tabor</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="WACWIC65211_n764-16">Thomas Norman</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n764-17">Thomas Norman</rs>
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, not being of sound<lb></lb>
Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted, on the Twenty-<lb></lb>
-fourth day of May in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish and in the Liberty<lb></lb>
and County aforesaid, a certain Pistol charged with Gunpowder and aleaden<lb></lb>
Bullet, which he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n764-18">Thomas Norman</rs>
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then and there had and held in<lb></lb>
his Right Hand, into the Mouth of him the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n764-19">Thomas Norman</rs>
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did then<lb></lb>
and there shoot off and discharge, by Means whereof he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n764-20">Thomas Norman</rs>
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<lb></lb>
did then and there give unto himself with the leaden Bullet aforesaid, so<lb></lb>
discharged and shot out of the Pistol aforesaid, by the force of the gunpowder<lb></lb>
aforesaid, in and through the Head of him the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n764-21">Thomas Norman</rs>
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and mortal<lb></lb>
Wound, of which said mortal Wound he the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n764-22">Thomas Norman</rs>
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then<lb></lb>
and there instantly died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath<lb></lb>
aforesaid do say, that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n764-23">Thomas Norman</rs>
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, not being of sound Mind<lb></lb>
Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted in Manner and<lb></lb>
by the Means aforesaid, did kill himself. In Witness whereof as<lb></lb>
well the said Coroner, as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n764-24">George Heming</rs>
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Foreman of the said<lb></lb>
Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows, in the their<lb></lb>
presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals, the<lb></lb>
Day Year and Place first above written</p>
<p n="765"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n765-1">Tho Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65211_occ208">Coroner</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n765-49">Geo Heming</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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