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

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

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King at the Parish of Saint George Hanover Square within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter
of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster , in the County of Middlesex , the Twenty second day of November
in the Third 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 Prickard< no role >
Gentleman Coroner of Our said Lord the King, for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of
Robert Munro< no role > then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of John Bolton< no role > , Edward
Filder
< no role > , Thomas Vere< no role > , Robert Cerbett< no role > , Daniel Luckhurst< no role > Jonah Leverton< no role > John Ermes< no role > , John
Munk
< no role > , Humphrey Hyett< no role > , Jonathan Hutchins< no role > , James Whaley< no role > , John Wooderoff< no role > Richard
Watkins
< no role > and Richard Serase< 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 Robert Munrocame to his Death, Do upon their Oath say
That the said Robert Munro being a Patient in St. George's Hospital near Hyde Park Corner in the said
Parish of St. George Hanover Square within the Liberty and County aforesaid, and not being of sound
Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted, on the twentieth day of November in the
year aforesaid, the said Robert Munro at the said Hospital within the Parish Liberty and County
aforesaid, with a certain Razor, made of Iron and Steel, which he the said Robert Munro then and there
had and held in his right Hand, the Throat or Gullet of him the said Robert Munro did then and there
strike, stab, and penetrate, thereby giving unto himself, with the Razor aforesaid, in and upon the
Throat or Gullet of him the said Robert Munro, One Mortal Wound, of which said Mortal Wound he
the said Robert Munro then and there instantly Died; And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath
aforesaid, do say, that the said Robert Munro, 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 John Bolton< no role > Foreman of the said Iurors, 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 year and Place first abovementioned

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner .

Mr. Bolton [mark] Foreman




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