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

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Image 216 of 63216th July 1782


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 Sixteenth Day of July 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
Jane Leggett< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
David Hill< no role > , Nicholas Wothman< no role > , Thomas Lucey< no role > , Charles Hall< no role > , Edmund Sibley< no role >
James Walker< no role > , Benjamin Morgan< no role > , Charles Freelove< no role > , Samuel Burland< no role > , William Burton< no role >
Joseph Luckhurst< no role > , John Maplebank< no role > , William Little< no role > , Stephen Burren< no role > and Robert Fisher< 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 Jane Leggett< no role > came to her
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said Jane Leggett< no role > not being of sound Mind
Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted on the Fifteenth Day of July
in the Year aforesaid One End of a small Cord to an Iron Hinge of a Closet Door in the
Lodging Room or Apartment of her the said Jane Leggett< no role > in the House of James Turner< no role >
situate in the Parish and County aforesaid and the other End thereof about her own Neck
did fix tye and fasten And therewith [..] then and there [..] herself
[..] and
[..]

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said David Hill< 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

David Hill [mark] Foreman




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