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

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MIDDLESEX .
(To wit.)}


AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish
of Saint Paul Shadwell in the County of
Middlesex , the fourth [..] Day of June 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 Mills< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Miles Dudley< no role > George Hagleton< no role > William Benson< no role > Charles Melling< no role > Richard Harris< no role > Robert
Roberts Charles Woodward< no role > John Bell< no role > Christian Awe< no role > John Pownsby< no role > James Nicholson< no role >
and Thomas Hit< 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 Mills< no role > came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said James Mills< no role > Labouring under a
Greivous Disease of Body (to wit) a Fever and by Reason of the violence of the said Disease
being delicious and out of his Mind on the First Day of June in the Year aforesaid from
and out of a certain Two pair of Stairs Window then and there being in a Room in the
Dwelling House of his Brother John Mills< no role > situate in the Parish and County aforesaid
Did violently last and throw himself to the ground in the Yard belonging to the said Dwelling
House By Means of which said lasting and Throwing he the said James Mills< no role > Did then and
there receive Divers Mortal Bruises in and upon The Head and Body of him the said James
Miles of which said Mortal Bruises he the said James Mills< no role > then and there Died
[..]
Miles being delicious and but of his Mind as aforesaid By Means of the [..] aforesaid
in manner and by the means aforesaid Did kill himself

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Miles Dudley< 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
Miles Dudley [mark] Foreman




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