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

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Image 99 of 63228th December 1781


MIDDLESEX .
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AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish
of Saint John Wapping in the County of
Middlesex , the twenty eighth Day of December 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
Elizabeth Lovett< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Thomas Clarks< no role > Joseph White< no role > Jacob Hack< no role > Edward Owen< no role > John Brady< no role > George Whitack Henry Moore< no role >
William Taylour< no role > James Powell< no role > Thomas Connie< no role > Thomas Dimmack David Smith< no role > Jonas
Moxon Joseph< no role > Meers and John Meers< 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 Elizabeth Lovett came to her
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Elizabeth Lovett not being of sound
Mind Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted on the Twenty
Sixth Day of December in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the County
aforesaid with a certain Bazor made of Iron and Steel of the Value of Two Pence
which she the said [..] there had and held in he [..]
[..] Throat or Gull [..] then
[..]
and then died to [..]
upon their Oath aforesaid [..] Elizabeth Lovett< no role > [..]
sound Mind Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted [..]
and by the Means aforesaid did Kill herself

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Thomas Clark< 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

Thos. Clark [mark] Foreman




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