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 Golden
[..] the Parish of Saint Mary Le Bone in the County of
Middlesex , the twenty eighth Day of June 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
Mary Ann Rogers< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
John Shepperson< no role > Robert Stone< no role > John Goodeve< no role > James Boyd< no role > Joseph Lightfoot< no role > , Archibald
Gray Henry Harris< no role > Nowel Lopham< no role > James Jackson< no role > George Phillips< no role > Stephen
Beaching
< no role > Simon Richardson William Fear< no role > James Burrell< 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 Ann Rogers came to her
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Mary Ann Rogers not being of sound
Mind, Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted on the Twenty fifth
Day of June in the Year aforesaid atgreat Quantitythe Parish and in the County
aforesaid a great Quantity (to Wit) Two Ounces of Landaman being a deadly Poison
did take, drink and swallow down By means whereof she the said Mary Ann
Rogers then and there became sick and distempered in her Body And of the Poison
aforesaid and of the Sickness and Distemper thereby occasioned from the said Twenty
fifty Day of June in the Year aforesaid untill the Twenty sixth Day of the same
Month in the same Year at the Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid did languish
and languishing did live, On which said twenty sixth Day of June in the Year
aforesaid at the Parish and in the County aforesaid she the said Mary Ann Rogers
of the Person aforesaid And of the Sickness and Distemper thereby occasioned did die
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said Mary
Ann Rogers not being of sound mind, Memory and understanding but Lunatic and
distracted in manner and by the means aforesaid did poison and kill herself.

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Mary Ann Rogers
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

Jno. Shepperson< no role > [mark] Foreman




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