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

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Image 86 of 63212th November 1781


MIDDLESEX .
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AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish
of Saint Mary Whitechapel in the County of
Middlesex , the twelfth Day of November in the twenty Second 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
James Smart< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
William Smith< no role > Thomas Noble< no role > John Hammond< no role > Duncan Robinson John Revell< no role > Benjamin
Rice Thomas< no role > Yearwood William Phillips< no role > James Plomer< no role > Edward Barratt< no role > Abraham Brown< no role >
and John Marks< 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 James Smart< no role > came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said James Smart< no role > not being of sound
Mind, Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted on the Fourth
Day of [..] in the Year aforesaid with a certain Birth King called a forming Kinford made of Iron
[..] Two pence which hath [..]
[..]

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said William Smith< 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

Wm Smith< no role > [mark] Foreman




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