Middlesex Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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1st September 1747 - 13th June 1803

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Image 78 of 6329th October 1781


MIDDLESEX .
(To wit.)}


AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish
of Saint Mary Whit chapell in the County of
Middlesex , the Ninth Day of October in the Twenty First 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, and so forth, before Thomas Phillips< no role >
one of the Coroners of our said Lord the King for the said County, on View of the Body of
John Rose< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
John Wyatt< no role > Richard Lanceman< no role > John Hammond< no role > Thomas Jeggett< no role > James Barrett< no role > William
Clarkson William Frembley< no role > Edward Barrett< no role > James Plomer< no role > William Glazebrook< no role > Thomas Langford< no role >
and John Hinde< no role >
good and lawful Men of the said County, duly chosen, and who being then and there duly
sworn and charged to inquire, for our said Lord the King, when, how, and by what Means, the
said John Rose< no role > came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said John Rose< no role > not being of sound Mind
Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted on the Fifth Day of October
in the Year aforesaid being endeavouring to Let himself down by a Cord from a Two
Pair of Stairs Window in the Dwelling House of him the said John Rose< no role > situate in
Swan Street in the Parish and County aforesaid into the said Street It so happened
That the said Cord then and there suddenly broke and the said John Rose< no role > then and
there fell upon the Foot Pavement in the said Street By Means whereof he the said
John Rose< no role > Did then and there receive divers Mortal Bruises in and upon the Head
Body, Legs and Thighs of him the said John Rose< no role > Of which said Mortal Bruises
He the said John Rose< no role > from the said Fifth Day of October in the year aforesaid untill
the Sixth Day of the same Month in the same Year at the Parish aforesaid in the
County aforesaid alexander to the [..]
[..] (to Wit) in the London Hospital there situate did Languish and Languishing
Did Live on which said sixth Day of October in the Year aforesaid he the said John Rose< no role >
at the Hospital aforesaid of the Mortal Bruises aforesaid did die And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said John Rose< no role > 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 the said Coroner as the said John Wyatt< no role >
the Foreman of the said Jurors, on the Behalf of himself and the Rest of his said Fellows, in
their Presence, have, to this Inquisition, set their Hands and Seals, the Day and Year first
above written.

Thos. Phillips< no role > [mark] Coroner

John Wyatt< no role > [mark] Foreman




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