320 Murder of Henry Long, Esq. 
No. III. 
Lone’s Casz. [Coke's Reports. | 
The only other document that has hitherto been met with relating 
to this affair is Sir Edward Coke’s Report of the Exceptions taken 
to the wording of the presentment under the Coroner’s Inquisi- 
tion. Being partly written in old French, and containing a 
number of obsolete legal phrases, it is not very easy to be understood 
in the old edition of Coke from which this is extracted. We 
therefore present only the substance of it. 
The argument upon the Writ of Error was heard before Chief 
Justice Sir John Popham, and Justices Gaudy, Yelverton, and 
Williams. 
“ Michaelmas Term, 2 James (1604). 
Wiiltes. An Inquisition held at Cossam 5th Oct. 36 Eliz. 
Puditement. (1594), before Wm. Snelling, Coroner of our Lady 
the Queen, within the liberty of her town of Cossam, on view of 
the body of Henry Long, Esq., there lying dead, on the oath of 12 
men presented, that a certain H. D., late of C. [Henry Danvers, late 
of Cirencester], in co. E. [Quere, G? Gloucester], Kt., C. D. 
[ Charles Danvers] late of C. in said county of E., Kt., G. L., late of 
Colkidge,? in co. W., yeoman, and R. P., late of L., in said co. W., 
yeoman, not having the fear of God before their eyes, did on 4th 
Oct., 36 Eliz., between the hours of eleven and twelve of the same 
day, at Cossam, with force and arms, viz., swords, &c. (“ pugionibus 
armacudiis et tormentis”’), assault the aforesaid H. Long; and the 
aforesaid H. D. voluntarily, feloniously, and of malice prepense, did 
discharge in and upon the said H. Longa certain engine calledadagge* 
worth 6s. 8d., charged with powder and bullet of lead, which H. D. 
had in his right hand ; and inflict a mortal wound upon the upper 
part of the body of H. L., “ subter sinistram mamillam,” (wnder the 
1 Sir Edw. Coke’s Reports. Folio, 1671. Part V.p. 121. 
2 We cannot identify G. L. and R. P. But ‘‘Colkidge, co. Wilts,” is without 
much doubt Cowage, alias Bremelham, near Malmsbury, then the property of 
the Danvers family. 
3 A dagge was a kind of pistol. In 1579, a proclamation had been issued by 
Queen Elizabeth ‘‘ against carrying pocket pistols, called dags, handguns,” &e. 
(Strype, Mem. II. pt. 2, p. 295.) 
