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

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Image 301 of 63224th February 1783


MIDDLESEX .
(To wit.)}


AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the
Precinct of Saint Catherine in the County of
Middlesex , the Twenty fourth 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
Susanna Warwick< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
John Storme< no role > William Dickinson< no role > Veritas Humphrys< no role > Mathew Jacks< no role >
Jethro Weatherstone< no role > This name instance is in set 2817. William Potts< no role > Thomas Weatherley< no role > John Lockey< no role > William
Davis James Gallagher William Harvey< no role > Thomas Heading< no role > George Elliot< no role > and John Greatorex< 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 Susanna Warwick< no role > came to her
Death do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Susanna Warwick< no role > on the Twenty
Second day of February in the Year aforesaid at theParishPrecinct aforesaid
in the County aforesaid One end of a small Cord to a Bed Post in the Dwelling
House of her Husband George Warwick< no role > Situate in the Precinct aforesaid
in the County aforesaid And the other and thereof about her own Neck did
fix ties and fasten and therewith did then and there hang suffocate and
Strangle herself of which said Hanging Suffocation and Strangling She
the said Susanna Warwick< no role > then and there Died And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say that the said Susanna
Warwick not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding but
Lunatic and Distracted in manner and by the means aforesaid did Hang
and Kill herself

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




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