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

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Image 249 of 6328th October 1782


MIDDLESEX .
(To wit)}


AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the parish
of Saint Matthew Bethnall Green in the County of
Middlesex , the eighth Day of October 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
Catherine Middup then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Thomas Sannall< no role > John Mansell< no role > Isaac Cosson< no role > Thomas Gill< no role > Bartholomew Butleworth< no role >
John Malfusion James Shakeshaft< no role > James Sanders< no role > Peter Baudry< no role > James Simonell< no role >
John Andrew< no role > Thomas Bakes< no role > James Tarr< no role > atd James Ely George Webb< no role > Lewis Frebout and
Jarvis Baucher< 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 Catherine Middup came to her
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Catherine Middup not being of sound
Mind, Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted on the Fourth Day
of October in the Year aforesaid herself into a Pond of Water situate in Mr Scott's
Field in the Parish and County aforesaid Did last and throw By means of which
said Casting and Throwing she the said Catherine Middup was in the Waters of the said Pondthereof
then and there suffocated and Drowned Of which said Suffocation and Drowning she
the said Catherine Middup then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon
their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said Catherine Middup not being of sound
[..]

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Thomas Tannatt< 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. Tannatt [mark] Foreman




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