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

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An Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the House of Richard Harwood< no role > known by the Sign of the Yorksire Grey
in the Parish of St: Geo: Bloomsbury in the County of Middlesex , the 25 Day of May 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 Coroners of Our said Lord
the KING, for the said County, on view of the body Sarah Lane< no role > the Wife of John Lane< no role >
then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Henry Busby James Brooks< no role > Joseph
Griffiths George Adamson< no role > John Lush< no role > , Joseph Tootell< no role > , Thomas Allwood Daniel Shilford Donnald
Murray and< no role > George Dunbar< no role >
good and lawful Men of the said County duly chosen as by Law is required [..]
[..] being then and there duly sworn
and charged, to enquire for our said Lord the KING, when, how, and by what means the said Sarah Lane< no role >
came to her Death, Do upon their Oath say, That the said Sarah the
Wife of the said John Lane on the Twenty first day of May in the Year aforesaid and for a long time before
at the Parish and in the County aforesaid did labour and Languish under a GrievousComplaintdisease of Body
to wit of a pair between her Breasts and that on the said twenty first day of May in the Year aforesaid at the
Parish and in the County aforesaid she the said Sarah Lane< no role > departed this life by the Visitation of Godina
Natural way to wit of the Disease aforesaid and not by any hurt or Injury to the Knowledge of the
said Jurors

In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said, Henry Burby< 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.
Henry Busby [mark] Foreman




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