City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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1st January 1795 - 31st December 1795

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Image 624 of 63131st December 1795


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Thos. Shelton< no role >
Corr.


An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London (that
is to say at the Parish of Saint Dunstan in the West in the Ward of Farringdon without in
London aforesaid on the thirty first day of December in the thirty sixth 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 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 John
Keymer now here lying dead by the oath of William Evans< no role > William Bagshaw< no role > Daniel Bennett< no role >
John Leggett< no role > Edward Garie James Cambell Ayliffe Buddle Isaac Holmes< no role > James Holmes< no role > Samuel
Graves John Skiffield John Fidler< no role > Francis Gibbins< no role > John Stapleton< no role > , King Charles Dolegal, Benjamin
Hartley William Hood< no role > Francis Radford< no role > and John Langdon< no role > good 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 John Keymer< no role > came to his death say
upon their oath that the said John Keymer< no role > not being of sound mind memory and understanding
but lunatic and distracted on the thirtieth day of December in the Year aforesaid one end of
a certain rope of no value unto and about the handrail of a certain stair case leading
to the Wine Cellar of the Inner Temple hall situate in the Parish and Ward aforesaid in
London aforesaid and the other end of the said piece of Cord round and about his own
neck did then and there fix tye and fasten by means whereof the said John Keymer< no role >
did then and there hang strangle and suffocate himself of which said hanging strangling and
suffocation the said John Keymer< no role > did then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their
oath aforesaid do say that the said John Keymer< no role > not being of sound mind memory
and understanding but lunatic and distracted did hang and kill himself In Witness whereof
as well the said Coroner as the said William Evans< 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 abovewritten.

William Evans< no role > [mark] Foreman




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