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

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Image 315 of 6324th April 1783


MIDDLESEX .
(To wit)}


AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the parish
of Saint Matthew Bethnal Green in the County of
Middlesex , the fourth Day of April 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
Mary White< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Isaac Cosson< no role > William Howard< no role > John Howard< no role > John Matthews< no role > Bartholomew Butterworth< no role >
Pearman Harding< no role > John Pugh< no role > John Vaughan< no role > Richard Bond< no role > Samuel Back< no role > Thomas Smith< no role >
John Gunon< no role > Thomas Baker< no role > James Tarratt< no role > William Wren< no role > [..] and Thomas Hill< 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 Mary White< no role > came to her
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Mary White< no role > not being of sound
Mind Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted on this Fourth
Day of April in the Year aforesaid One End of a small Cord to a Hook in a
Wooden Beam< no role > in the heling of her Parlour situate in the Parish and County
aforesaid and the other End thereof about her own Check did fix tye and fasten and
therewith Did then and there hang suffocate and strangle herself Of which said
Hanging Suffocation and Strangling she the said Mary White< no role > then and there died
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the
said Mary White< no role > not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding
but Lunatic and distracted in Manner and by the Means aforesaid Did Kill
herself

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

Isaac Cosson [mark] Foreman




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