Middlesex Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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1st May 1781 - 31st December 1799

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Image 106 of 71227th May 1782


Middlesex
To Wit.

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An Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the parish of [..]
[..] in the County of Middlesex , the twenty seventh Day of May in the 22nd. 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 Edward Umfreville< no role > one of the Coroners of Our said Lord
the KING, for the said County, on view of the body of William Fry< no role >
William Charleton< no role > Thomas Blunt< no role > William Shephard< no role > Zachariah Zore< no role > ,
James Chater< no role > Joseph Bird< no role > Thomas Cotton< no role > James Smith< no role > James Jacques< no role >
William Stoll< no role > Joseph Scarrall< no role > John How< no role > Adam Winlow Thomas
Whitmore Richard Beeson James Smith< no role > John Lea< no role > and William
Wrench
good and lawful Men of the said County duly chosen as by Law, required, and who being then and there duly sworn
and charged to enquire for our said Lord the KING, when, how, and by what means the said William Fry< no role >
came to h is Death, Do upon their Oath say, That the said William Fry< no role > not
being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted on
the Twenty forth Day of May in the Year aforesaid One End of Cord to one of
the Bed Posts in the Lodging Room or Apartment of the said William Fry< no role > in the
Parish and County aforesaid And the other End thereof about his own Neck did six
tye and fasten and therewith did then and there hang, suffocate and strangle himself
Of which said Hanging Suffocation and Strangling he the said William Fry< no role >
then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say
That the said William Fry< no role > not being of sound Mind, Memory and Understanding
but Lunatic and distracted in Manner and by the Means aforesaid Die kill himself

In Witness whereof, as well as the said Coroner, as the said John Thompson< 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 Yeat first abovemontiened

E. Umfreville [mark] Coronr.

Jno Thompson [mark] Foreman




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