City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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9th July 1788 - 30th December 1788

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London


Thomas Shelton< no role >
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Coroner


An Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London, that is to say, at the Parish
of Saint Autholin in the Ward of Cordwainer in London aforesaid on the twenty first day of August in the twenty eighth year of the
Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith Etc
before Thomas Shelton< no role > Gentleman Coroner of our said Lord the King for the City of London and Borough of Southwarkon view of the Body
of Thomas Fenner< no role > now here lying dead by the each of Thomas Bord< no role > , William Allmond< no role > , Richard Wood< no role > , Edward Knight< no role > , John Paton< no role >
Robert Beton< no role > , Thomas Croucher< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. , William Gregory< no role > , Robert Dawson< no role > , William Groves< no role > , William Rice< no role > , John Page< no role > , Richard Gollop and
Samuel Thorne< no role > good and and lawful men of the City of London aforesaid who being now here duly chosen sworn and charged to inquire
for our said Lord the King when how and in what manner the said Thoma's Fenner< no role > came to his death say upon their oath that the
said Thomas Fenner< no role > not being of sound mind memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted on the said twenty first day
of August in the twenty eighth year aforesaid at the parish and Ward aforesaid on London aforesaid one and of a certain Line made of
Horse hair of no Value unto and about a certain under Rail belonging to the Bannister [..] Stairs of the Dwellinghouse of
him the said Thomas Fenner< no role > there situate leading into the Cellar of the said Dwellinghouse and the other and thereof about his own
neck did then and there fix tye and fasten By means whereof he the said Thomas Fenner< no role > did then and there hang suffocate
and strangle himself Of which said hanging suffocation and strangling he the said Thomas Fenner< no role > did then and there instantly
did And to the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said Thomas Fenner< no role > not being of sound mind memory and
understanding but lunatic and distracted in manner and by the means aforesaid did King and kill himself In Witness whereof as
well the said Coroner as the said Thomas Bord< no role > the foreman of the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows in
this presence have to this Inquisition at their hands and seals the day year and place first above written

Thos Bord< no role > [mark] Foreman




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