City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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8th January 1762 - 20th December 1762

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Westminster City and Liberty
in the County of Middlesex }
to Wit.


An Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the Parish of
St. Martin in the Fields , in the County of Middlesex within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate
Church of St. Peter at Westminster the Eighteenth day of March in the Second 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 Richard Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of
Henry Danker< no role > , then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of Philip Cole< no role > , Oswald Hall< no role > , Andrew Willson< no role > Francis Walter< no role >
John Barton< no role > , Nathaniel Crowder< no role > , John Bourne< no role > , Christian Henrickson< no role > John Brookman< no role > , Edward Broadshaw< no role > , Thomas Antsell< no role > , Edward Burn< no role > , Andrew
Betty
< no role > James Darling< no role > , William Shepherd< no role > , William Branch< no role > and Thomas Fanshall< no role > good and lawfull Men of the said
Liberty 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 Henry Danker< no role > came to his Death do upon their Oath say,
That the said Henry Danker not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted, on the fourteenth
day of March in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish aforesaid in the Liberty aforesaid, one End of a certain Rope unto
a Nail fastened into a Post in a Stable belonging to Mr. Paul Chatain situate and being in the said Parish and
Liberty, 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 Henry
Danker then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid, upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said Henry Danker
not being of sound Mind, Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted, in manner and by the means
aforesaid, did kill himself In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Philip Cole< no role > Foreman,
on the behalf of himself and the rest of the said Jurors, in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their
Hands and Seals the Day Year and Place abovementioned.

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner .

Philip Cole< no role > Foreman,




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