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

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Image 405 of 63219th July 1785


MIDDLESEX
(To wit)}


AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, atthe Adam
and Eve in
the Parish of Saint Mary Islington in the County of
Middlesex , the nineteenth Day of July 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
William Wyatt< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
James Charlesworth< no role > William West< no role > Thomas Williams< no role > Benjamin Castledon< no role > , John
Fawkner Mark Walk John Green< no role > , John Richardson< no role > , James Saxby< no role > Gilbert Credie< no role >
William Shepherd< no role > Samuel Sabey< no role > Charles Mills< no role > John Surze, John Reynolds< no role > Zachariah Cox< no role >
William Whitehead< no role > John Pressey< no role > and Daniel Smith< 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 William Wyatt< no role > . came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said William Wyatt< no role > not being of sound
Mind Memory and understanding but Lunatic and distracted on the seventeenth
Day of July in the year aforesaid One End of a Silk Handkerchief to a Beds Toaster
in his apartment Sutnall in Paradise Row 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 he the said William Wyatt< no role > then and there died And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said William Wyatt< 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 James Charlesworth< 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
Jas. Charlesworth [mark] Foreman




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