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

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Image 297 of 63212th February 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 twelfth Day of February 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
Judith Lacy< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
John Youings< no role > , Richard Tomlinson< no role > Abraham Brown< no role > John Hammond< no role > William
Pitcher John Vango< no role > Thomas Bastock< no role > Thomas Vango John Andrews< no role > Richard
Furness Edward Bale William Hadsely and Richard Lanceman< no role >
good and lawful Men of the said County, duly chose, 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 Judith Lacy< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Judith Lacy< no role > not being of sound
Mind, Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted on the
Eighth Day of February in the year aforesaid One End of a piece of Wallon
called List to a Nail at the Back Door of the Apartment of her the said
Judith Lacy situate in Money Beg Alley in the Parish and County aforesaid
and the other End thereof about her own Neck Did fix, tye and fasten and therewith
Did then and there hang, suffocate and strange herself Of which said Hanging
Suffocation and Strangling she the said Judith Lacy< no role > then and there died And so the
Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say that the said Judith Lacy< no role >
not being of sound Mind, Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted
in Manner and by the Means aforesaid Did hill herself

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said John Youings< 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 Youings [mark] Foreman




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