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

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Middlesex
To Wit.

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An Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the parish of Kensington
in the County of Middlesex , the thirtieth 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 John Hollingsworth< no role >
then and there lying dead, upon the oath of John Chipperfield< no role > , James
Cowmeadow Charles Barber< no role > John Bennett< no role > Richard Davis< no role > William Collins< no role >
John Alldridge< no role > This name instance is in set 20180. Thomas Caster< no role > Andrew Burgess< no role > John Mills< no role > William
Richard Charles Coshier William Smeeton< no role > John Bunch< no role > Matthew
Gilbert and< no role > John Leach< no role >
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 Lord the KING, when, how, and by what means the said John
Hollingsworth came to h is Death, Do upon their Oath say, That the said John
Hollingsworth not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding but
Lunatic and Distracted on the Twenty Eighth Day of May in the Year
aforesaid One End of a Handkerchief to the Newill of the Stairs in The
Dwelling House of William Brown< no role > situate in the parish and County aforesaid
and the other End thereof about his own Cheek did fix, tye and fasten and therewith
Did then and there hang, suffocate and strangle himself, Of which and Hanging
Suffocation and Strangling he the said John Hollingsworth< no role > then and there died
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said John
Hollingsworth not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding But Lunatic
and distracted in Manner and by the Means aforesaid Did kill himself
In Witness whereof, as well as the said Coroner, as the said John Chipperfield< 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 and Year first abovementioned

E. Umfreville [mark] Coronr.

John Chipperfield< no role > [mark] Foreman




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