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

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Image 411 of 63228th July 1785


MIDDLESEX
(To wit)}


AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at Brentford
in the Parish of Ealing in the County of
Middlesex , the twenty Eighth 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
Thomas Greenwood< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Charles Blake< no role > John Conway< no role > John Livingstone< no role > Francis Swindon< no role > Samuel White< no role >
Richard How< no role > William Round< no role > Robert Walters< no role > , Jasper Polecut Samuel Hasle, Charles
Pelson, John Milward< no role > , Joseph Dickerson< no role > John Blackall< no role > Charles Child< no role > Thomas Hall< no role >
John Welladvise, John Smith< no role > and Thomas Boswell< no role > and William Kusell< 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 Thomas Greenwood< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Thomas Greenwood< no role > not being of sound
Mind, Memory and understanding but Lunatic and distracted on the Twenty sixth
Day of July in the Year aforesaid One End of a small cord to a Shed in a backtheYard
belonging to his Father Henry Greenwood< no role > situate at Brentford 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 Drowning he the said Thomas Greenwood< no role > then and there died And so
the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said Thomas Greenwood< no role >
not being of sound Mind, Mmemory and understanding in manner and by the means
aforesaid did kill himself

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Charles Blake< 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
Chs Blake [mark] Foreman




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