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

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Image 282 of 63213th January 1783


MIDDLESEX .
(To wit.)}


AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish
of Tottenham in the County of
Middlesex , the thirteenth Day of January 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
John Jones< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
John Dellow< no role > John Clifford< no role > Thomas Figgis< no role > George Woolmer< no role > William Balaam< no role >
Thomas Sale< no role > John Dobbs< no role > John Redshaw< no role > Nathaniel Nicholls< no role > Joseph, Marshall< no role >
William Handcocke< no role > John Chase< no role > John Atherton< no role > Zachariah Huggins< no role > William
Goodman
< no role > James Chaddock< no role > Thomas Lee< no role > , Charles Sanders< no role > and Thomas Sanders< 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 John Jones< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said John Jones< no role > not being of sound Mind
Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted on the Eleventh Day of
January in the Year aforesaid upon the Geers of a [..] certain Water Corn Mill belonging
toWyburd situate in the Parish and County aforesaid And Whilst the saf'd
Mill was going Did last and Threw himself By Means whereof he the said
John Jones< no role > did and then and there receive divers mortal Wounds and Bruises in and
upon the Head, Breast, Belly, Legs and Arms of him the said John Jones< no role > of which
said Mortal Bruises he the said John Jones< no role > then and there instantly Died And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say that the said John Jones< no role > not being of
sound [..] memory and Understanding but Lunatic [..] racted in [..]
and [..] Means aforesaid Did kill himself

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said John Dellow< 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

John DellowForeman




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