Middlesex Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
CO | IC

1st September 1747 - 13th June 1803

About this document type

Currently Held: London Metropolitan Archives

LL ref: LMCOIC651020261

Image 261 of 63211th November 1782


MIDDLESEX .
(To wit)}


AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish
of Christ Church in the in the County of
Middlesex , the eleventh Day of November in the twenty third 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
Mary Harvey< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Henry Pettit< no role > Williams Morgan< no role > Abraham Bernard< no role > Thomas Sherwood< no role > John Debries< no role >
John Gallatley< no role > Joseph Walker< no role > John White< no role > Joseph Wrench< no role > Williams Heap Richard
Wooldridge Robert Hawes< no role > Thomas Mountain< no role > John Mapson< no role > William Harris< no role >
Thomas Davies< no role > John Gale< no role > James Lecourt< no role > Daniel Gurston< no role > and Michael to Taillour
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 Mary Harvey< no role > came to her
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Mary Harvey< no role > This name instance is in set 4800. not being of sound
Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted on the Eighth Day of
November in the Year aforesaid One End of a Piece of Pack Thread to a Leaden
Water Pipe in her Lodging Room or Apartment situate in Wilkes Street in the
Parish and County aforesaid and the other End thereof about her own Necks
Did fix tye and fasten and therewith Did then and there hand suffocate and
strangle herself Of which said Hanging Suffocation and Strangling she the
said Mary Harvey< no role > This name instance is in set 4800. then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their
to the said Do say That the said Mary Harvey< no role > This name instance is in set 4800. not being of sound
Mind Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted [..] Manner
[..] the Means aforesaid Did kill herself

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Henry Pettit< 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
Henry Pettit [mark] Foreman

No. 8
St. Ann
On John May< no role >
Accy. Drowned:




View as XML