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 Luke in the County of
Middlesex , the Ninth Day of May in the twenty fifth 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
John Hutchins< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Robert Bryant< no role > , Thomas Fletcher< no role > , Thomas Lamb< no role > , William Rolfe< no role > , John Francis< no role >
John Hogarth< no role > , John Tubby< no role > , Richard Jones< no role > , William Winder< no role > John James White< no role >
James Balmain< no role > , William Wetherston< no role > , Benjamin Tarrant< no role > , Charles Griffith< no role > , David Evans< no role > , Joseph
Hawes, William King< no role > , Francis Braty< no role > , Daniel Lowe< no role > , William Long< no role > , Peter Richardson< no role > and Thomas White< 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 John Hutchins< no role > came to his
Death, do upon their Oath, say, That the said John Hutchins< no role > on the seventh Day of
May in the Year aforesaid
not being of sound Mind, Memory and Understanding
but Lunatic and distracted on the seventh Day of May in the Year aforesaid One End
of a small Cord to a Bed post in the Lodging Room or Apartment of him the said John
Hutchins situate in Play house Yard in the Parish and County 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 which said Hanging, Suffocation and Strangling the
the said John Hutchins< no role > then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath
aforesaid do say That the said John Hutchins< no role > not being of sound Mind, Memory and
Understanding but Lunatic and distracted in Manner and by the means aforesaid did
kill himself

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Robert Bryant< 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

Robt Bryant [mark] Foreman




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