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

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Image 197 of 7126th April 1785


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An Inquisition intended taken for our Sovereign Lord the KING at the Sign of the Spread Eagle in the Parish of Saint
Mary le bone in the County of Middlesex , the Sixth Day of April in the 25 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 > Esquire one of the Coroner s of our said Lord
the KING, for the said County, on view of the body of Mary Radford< no role >
then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Samson Kemp< no role >
John Brown< no role > , James Iscorn< no role > , James Bailie, James Russell< no role > , Thomas Dickerson< no role > , Robert Parsla, William
Jacobs
< no role > , Samuel Malpas, George Arnold< no role > , John Lawthorp< no role > , John Wistan, John Wheeler< no role > , Samuel Underwood< no role >
John Middleton< no role > , Mark Hicks, Thomas Baring< no role > Samuel Asbourn< no role > John Black< no role > and William Newson< 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 Radford< no role >
came to h er Death, Do upon their Oath say, That the said Mary
Radford not being of Sound Mind Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and Distracted on the Second day of
April in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the County aforesaid with a Certain Razor made of Iron and Steel
of the Value of two Pence which she the said Mary Radford< no role > then and there had And held in her Right Hand the Throat
ofhershe the said Mary Radford< no role > did then and there Strike Stab and Penetrate thereby then and there giving unto
herself the said Mary Radford< no role > so being Lunatic and Distracted as aforesaid with the Razor aforesaid one Mortal
Wound of the Length of three Inches and of the Depth of One Inch of which said Mortal Wound She the said
Mary Radford< no role > did then and there Instantly die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do
say that the said Mary Radford< 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 the said Coroner, as the said Samson Kemp< 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.

Samson Kemp [mark] Foreman




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