City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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2nd January 1790 - 30th December 1790

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Image 41 of 94914th January 1790


Southwark


T: Shelton
Corr. [mark]

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the Parish of Saint
George within the Borough of Southwark in the County of Surrey on the Fourteenth day of January in the thirtieth Year of
the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third by the Grace of God Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the
faith and so forth before Thomas Shelton< no role > Gentleman Coroner of our said Lord the King For the City of London and Borough of
Southwark on view of the Body of Daniel Ortzen< no role > now here lying dead by the Oath of Joseph Musgrove< no role > , Samuel Rawlins< no role >
Thomas Cawood< no role > , John Robinson< no role > Cotesworth, William Swift< no role > .John Catherine Hesbow CookWalter Costallow, John
Dickinson Richard Powell< no role > , Thomas Martin< no role > , James Anderson< no role > , James Robinson< no role > , Matthew Freeman< no role > , Edward Cureton< no role >
William Watts< no role > , Samuel Moulten< no role > and John Puoires good and lawful men of the Borough aforesaid in the County
aforesaid who being here duly chosen sworn and charged to Inquire for our said Lord the King when how and after
what manner the said Daniel Ortzen< no role > came to his death say upon their Oath that the said Daniel Ortzen< no role > not being of
sound mind memory and Understanding but lunatic and distracted on the thirteenth day of January in the
thirtieth Year aforesaid at the Parish aforesaid within the Borough aforesaid in the County aforesaid one end of
a certain piece of Cord of no value unloaded about an Ironhook fixed in the Wall of the Dwelling house of him the said
Daniel Ortzen< no role > there situate and the other end of the said piece of Cord unto and about his own neck then and there
did fix tie and Fasten By means whenof he the said Daniel Ortzen< no role > did then and there hang strangle and
suffocate himself Of which said hanging Strangling and suffocation he the said Daniel Ortzen< no role > did then and
there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon there Oath aforesaid do say that the said Daniel Ortzen< no role > not
being of sound mind memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted in manner and by the
means aforesaid did hang and Kill himself In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said
Joseph Musgrave< no role > the Foreman of the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows in their Presence
have to this Inquisition set their hands and Seals the day Year and place first above written.

Joseph Musgrave< no role > [mark] Foreman




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