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

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Image 286 of 63221st January 1783


MIDDLESEX
(To wit)}


AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the parish
of Saint Mary White Chapel in the County of
Middlesex , the twenty first 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, in View of the Body of
James Prior< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Abraham Brown< no role > John Hammond< no role > John Habe< no role > John Price< no role > Nicholas Hebert Thomas
Lesley John Revell< no role > Edward Smith< no role > William Smith< no role > Thomas Tyrrell< no role > Henry Julius< no role >
Anslow and William Qnem
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 Prior< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said James Prior< no role > not being of sound Mind
Memory and Understanding but lunatic and distracted on the Nineteenth day
of January in the Year aforesaid One End of a small Cord to a wooden Rafton in
a Necessary situate in Buckle Street in the parishaforesaidand County aforesaid
and the other End about his own Neck did fix tie and fasten and therewith
did then and there hang suffocate and strangle himself of which said
Hanging Suffocation and Strangling he the said James Prior< no role > then and
there died and so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid Do
[..] aforesaid James Prior< no role > not being [..] Mind Memory and
[..] but lunatic and distracted [..] and by the Means
aforesaid and kill himself

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Abraham Brown< 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 > Coroner

The Mark of
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Abraham Brown< no role > } [mark] Foreman




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