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

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MIDDLESEX .
(To wit)}


AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the parish
of Saint Leonard Shoreditch in the County 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
George Lloyd< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
John Taylor< no role > John Stacey< no role > John Adams< no role > Samuel Harper< no role > James Saltwell< no role > James Champain< no role >
Matthias Brown< no role > John Gray< no role > John Gardiner< no role > Edward Morgan< no role > John Thurman< no role > Allen
Banks William Bowman< no role > William Kitchen< no role > Richard Brookes< no role > and Robert Armond< 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 George Lloyd< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said George Lloyd< no role > not being of sound Mind
Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted on the second Day of
April in the Year aforesaid One End of a Piece of Sacking Bottom of a Bedstead to
a Wooden Bail in the Workhouse of the Parish aforesaid And the other End thereof
about his own Neck did fix tye and fasten and therewith did then and there hang
suffocate and strangle himself of Of which said Hanging Suffocation and Strangling
he the said George Lloyd< no role > then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their
Oath aforesaid Do say That the said George Lloyd< no role > not being of sound Mind
Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted the Manner and by the
Means aforesaid did Kill himself

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said John Taylor< 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 Taylor< no role > [mark] Foreman




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