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 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
Ann Hunt< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Francis Thompson< no role > John Shepperson< no role > Benjamin Appleyard< no role > William Walker< no role > John Orpin Price Jones< no role >
Thomas Jordan< no role > John Heath< no role > William Biggs< no role > Robert Shuter< no role > James Russell< no role > John Davies< no role > Henry
Goodiff Hugh Evans< no role > John Weston< no role > Samuel Underwood< no role > Samuel Bright< no role > John Brown< no role > John Lowthorp< no role >
and John Rowlandson< 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 Ann Hunt< no role > came to her
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That some Person or Persons to the Jurors aforesaid unknown not having
the fear of God before his her or their Eyes but being moved and seduced by the Instigation of the Devil on the twenty sixth
day of June in the year aforesaid with force and Arms at the Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid in and upon the
said Ann Hunt< no role > in the Peace of God and of our said Lord the King then and there being feloniously Wilfully and of his her
or their Malice aforethought did make an Assault and that the said Person or Persons to the Jurors aforesaid unknown with
a certain Razor made of Iron and Steel of the value of six pence which the said person or persons or as aforesaid unknown
then and there had and held in his her or their [..] hands the throat or Gullet of her the said Ann Hunt< no role > did then and there
feloniously [..] Wilfully and of his her or their Malice aforethought divers times strike stab and Penetrate and did thereby then
and there give to her the said Ann Hunt< no role > with the Razor aforesaid in and upon the said Throat or Gullet of her the said Ann
Hunt divers Mortal Wounds And That the said Person or Persons so as aforesaid to the said Jurors unknown with a
certain Heir Broom which he she or they then and there had and held in both his her or their Hands her the said Ann
Hunt in and upon the left side of the Head of her the said Ann Hunt< no role > near the left Te [..] then and there feloniously
wilfully and of his her or their Malice aforethought did strike and Beat and that the said person or persons so as
aforesaid to the said Jurors unknown did then and there give unto her the said Ann Hunt< no role > by the Striking and Beating
aforesaid with the Hair Broom aforesaid in and upon the said left side of the Head of her the said Ann Hunt< no role > near the left
Temple aforesaid One Mortal Fracture in and upon the Skull of her the said Ann Hunt< no role > of which said Mortal Fracture
and Mortal Wounds aforesaid she the said Ann Hunt< no role > from the said twenty sixth day of June in the year aforesaid until
the twenty seventh day of the some Month in the same Year to wit in a certain Hospital called the Middlesex Hospital
situate in the parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid did Languish and Languishing did Live on which said twenty
seventh day of June in the year aforesaid she the said Ann Hunt< no role > of the Mortal Fracture and Mortal Wounds aforesaid
did then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said person or persons was
aforesaid unknown her the said Ann Hunt< no role > in manner and by the Means aforesaid feloniously Wilfully and of his
her or their Malice aforethought did kill and Murder against the peace of our said Lord the King his Crown and
Dignity
IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Francis Thompson< 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

Francis Thompson< no role > [mark] Foreman




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