City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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3rd January 1765 - 24th December 1765

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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 St. 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 Fourth
Day of April in the 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 Prickard< no role > Gentleman Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and
Liberty, On View of the Body of Mary Harris< no role > then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of Thomas
Thompson
< no role > , John Vobe< no role > , Jees Campbell< no role > , Samuel Blundell< no role > , Samuel Vining< no role > , John Warnes< no role > , Michael Jones< no role > , William
Harris
< no role > , Paul Turner< no role > , William Sabin< no role > , George Wharton< no role > , William Oldfield< no role > , James Curtis< no role > , Emanuel
Bennet
< no role > , Edward Taylor< no role > and Ninian Magill< no role > , good and lawfull Men of the said Liberty duly chosen
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 Mary Harris< no role > came to her Death, do upon their Oath say,
the said Mary Harris< no role > , not being of sound Mind, Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted,
on the third day of April in the Year aforesaid from and out of a certain two pair of Stairs Window,
then and there being in the Chamber or Apartment of her said Mary Harris< no role > in the Dwelling House of
Mary Calclough widow, situate in North Chapel Court, in the Parish Liberty and County aforesaid, to
the Ground, did violently cast and throw herself, to and against the Stone Pavement in the black Area or
Yard of the said dwelling House, by Means whereof she the said Mary Harris< no role > did then there receive
divers mortal Wounds and Bruises in and upon her Head and Body, of which said Mortal Wounds
and Bruises she the said Mary Harris< no role > then and there instantly died. And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Mary Harris< no role > , not being of sound
Mind, Memory and Understanding but lunatick and distracted, in Manner and by the
Means aforesaid, did kill herself. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said
Thomas Thompson< no role > 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, that Day Year
and Place first above written

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

Mr Thompson Foreman




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