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

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Image 109 of 7121st June 1782


Middlesex
To Wit.

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An Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the parish of SaintAndrew Holborn
above the Barrs
in the County of Middlesex , the frist Day of June 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 Mary Detross< no role >
then and there lying dead, upon the oath of John Pryfield John
Scott John Cope< no role > George Slaton< no role > Thomas Simpson< no role > Joseph Allen< no role >
Samuel Lane< no role > Samuel Wilson< no role > James Cleghorn< no role > John Humphreys< no role >
Griffith Evans< no role > Williams Havard< no role > and James Boulton< 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 said Lord the KING, when, how, and by what means the said Mary Detross< no role >
came to h er Death, Do upon their Oath say, That the said Mary Detross< no role >
not being of sound Mind Memory sand Understanding but Lunatic and distracted
on the Twenty Eighth Day of May in the year aforesaid at the Parish and
in the County aforesaid a Quantity of Deadly Poison to the Jurors aforesaid [..] known
Did take and Swallow down By Means where she the said Mary Detross then
and there became sick and distempered in her Body And of the said Sickness and
Distemper did Languish for the Space of a about Six Hours and then died
to wit in the Parish and County aforesaid And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their
Oath aforesaid Do say That the said Mary Detross< no role > not being of sound Mind
Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted in Manner and by the
Means aforesaid did kill herself
In Witness whereof, as well as the said Coroner, as the said John Fifield< 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.

Jno Fifield [mark] Foreman




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