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

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Image 468 of 63224th October 1785


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An Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at
The Parish of Saint John Hampstead in the County of Middlesex the twenty fourth day of
October 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 Susannah Workman< no role > then and there lying dead upon
the Oath of Thomas Baysallance< no role > , John Attwood< no role > , Simon Edwards< no role > , Thomas Geeves< no role > , William
Hooke, Thomas Moulson< no role > , Allen Kitchin< no role > , Joseph Todd< no role > , Thomas Armes< no role > , Joseph Davis< no role >
Thomas Wood< no role > and George Bell< no role >

good and lawful Men of the said County duly chosen and who being then and there
duly sworn and charged, to enquire for our said Lord the King when how and by what
means the said Susannah Workman< no role > came to her Death, do upon their Oath
say That the said Susanna Workman< no role > not being of sound mind, Memory and understanding
but Lunatic and distracted on the nineteenth Day of October in the Year aforesaid herself
into a Pond of Water called the first Heath Pond on Hampstead Heath in the Parish and
County aforesaidanddid cast and theow by Means where she the said Susanna Workmen was in the Waters of the said Pond then and there suffocated and drowned
of which said Suffocation and Drowning she the said Susanna Workman< no role > then and there died
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say That the said Susanna
Workman not being of sound Mind Memory and understanding but Lunatic and
distracted in Manner and by the Means aforesaid lid drown and kill herself

In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Thomas Bayssallancethe
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.

Thomas Phillips< no role > [mark] Coroner
Bayssallance [mark] Foreman




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