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

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Image 188 of 71215th April 1783


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An Inquisition intended taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at The Parish of Saint Andrew
Holborn above the Barrs in the County of Middlesex , the 15th Day of April in the 23d 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 Coroner of Our said Lord
the KING, for the said County, on view of the body of Ann Payne< no role >
then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of William Peasefull
Ancher Heeks< no role > , James Pitt< no role > , John Coles< no role > , Edward Jones< no role > , Christopher Peddon< no role > , Charles
Williams, James Swingwood< no role > , Thomas Thompson< no role > , Henry Norgrove< no role > , Henry Monks< no role >
William Bell< no role > , John Hall< no role > James Lewis< no role > , William Lane< no role > , John Wittham< no role > and Samuel
Allbone

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 Ann Payne< no role >
came to h er Death, Do upon their Oath say, That the said Ann Payne< no role >
Labouring under a grievous Disease of Body to wit a Fever And by Reason of
the violence of the said Disease being delirious and out of her Mind on the
Thirteenth Day of April in the Year aforesaid herself out of a window in a
Dwelling House in Little Grays Inn Lane in the Parish and County
aforesaid Did violently cast and throw to and against the Stone Pavement
in the said Lane By means whereof she the said Ann Payne< no role > did then and
there receive One Mortal Wound in and upon the Head of her the said Ann
Payne Of which said Mortal Wound she the said Ann Payne< no role > then and there
Died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the
said Ann Payne< no role > being delirious and out of her mind as aforesaid in manner
and by the means aforesaid did kill herself

In Witness whereof, as well the said Coroner, as the said William Peasefull 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.

Wm Peasefull [mark] Foreman




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