City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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2nd January 1793 - 28th December 1793

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An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to say at the
parish of Saint Austin alias Augustine in the ward of Broad Street in London aforesaid on the twenty
ninth day of July in the thirty third year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord< no role > George the third by the Grace of
God of Great Britain France and Ireland King defender of the faith and so forth before Thomas
Shelton Gentleman Coroner of our said Lord the King for the City of London and Borough of Southwark
on view of the Body of James Alachelane now here lying dead by the Oath of Richard Harris< no role > Robert
Webb John Boston< no role > Thomas Willard< no role > William, Burrows< no role > William Pearces< no role > Joseph Allsop Robert< no role >
Orton William House< no role > William Sibley< no role > Samuel Goft< no role > Francis Hodges< no role > Nicholas Cooper< no role > William
Godfrey
< no role > Thomas Mackenzie< no role > William Meredith< no role > Timothy Pank< no role > Thomas Hambridge< no role >
good and lawful men of the City of London 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 James Macklanlane< no role > came to his
death say upon their Oath that the said James Maclanland< no role > not being of sound mind memory and
understanding but lunatic and distracted on the twenty eighth day of July in the year aforesaid at the
parish of Saint Magdalen in the Ward aforesaid with a certain penknife of the value of 2d which he
which he in his right hand had and held the neck and throat of him the sd James Maclanland< no role >
with the Knife aforesaid did then and there violently cut giving to himself the said James Maclanland< no role >
with the knife aforesaid one mortal wound in and upon the Throat of him the said James Maclanland< no role >
of which said mortal wound he the said James Maclanland< no role > did then and there die. And so
the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said James Maclanland< no role > in manner
and by the means aforesaid did kill himselfIn Witness whereof as well the said Coroner
as the said Richard Harris< 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.

Richard Harris< no role >
Foreman




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