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

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Image 90 of 63221st November 1781


MIDDLESEX .
(To wit.) }


AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish
of Saint Luke in the County of
Middlesex , the twenty first 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
Robert Field< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
William Little< no role > Morgan Emms< no role > Josiah Boston< no role > Thomas Thompson< no role > Peter Hughs< no role > Enoch
Davis John Duggan William Royland< no role > John Boyce< no role > Thomas Potter< no role > Charles Hall Roger< no role >
Baker Walter Davis< no role > Charles Moosley Thomas Taylor< no role > Samuel Burroughs< no role > & Samuel
Burden
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 Robert Field< no role > came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Robert Field< no role > not being of sound Mind
Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted on the Eighteenth Day
of November in the Year aforesaid One End of a small Cord to an Iron Screw
in the Wall of the Lodging [..] apurtment of him the said Robert Field< no role >
situatein the Dwelling [..] Wilson situate in Bunhill Row
Parish and County [..] thereof about his own neck [..]
[..]
aforesaid did Kill him [..]

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

William Little< no role > [mark] Foreman




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