MIDDLESEX
(To wit)}
AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at The Hamlet
of Mile End Old Town
in the Parish of Saint Dunston Stepney in the County of
Middlesex
, the Fifth Day of August 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
Alice Darie< no role >
then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Henry Tod< no role >
,
William Vince< no role >
,
William Strahan< no role >
,
Samuel Swansbury< no role > This name instance is in set 4147.
,
William Combers< no role >
James Malkam< no role >
,
William Webb< no role >
,
Zachariah Child< no role >
Solomon Peckover< no role >
,
Richard Palmer< no role >
Thomas Beart< no role >
,
John Pickett< no role >
,
Thomas Pope< no role >
and
Thomas Hutchinson< 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
Alice Durio< no role >
came to her
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said
Alice Durie< no role >
not being of sound mind
Memory and understanding but Lunatic and distracted on the fourth Day of August
in the year aforesaid One End of a small Cord to an Iron Bar in a Garrett Window of the
Workhouse
situate in the Hamlet aforesaid 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 house of Of which said Hanging, Suffocation and Strangling
she the said
Alice Durie< no role >
then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath
aforesaid Do say That the said
Alice Durie< no role >
not being of sound mind, memory and undestanding
but Lunatic and distracted in manner and by the means aforesaid did kill herself
IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Henry Tod< 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
Henry Tod [mark] Foreman