City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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3rd January 1766 - 29th December 1766

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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. Martin in the Fields within the Liberty of the Dean
and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster in the County of
Middlesex , the First day of Mayin the SixthYear 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 Matthew Greenaker< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Joseph
Sutton
< no role > , Richard Sheffield< no role > , Jarvis Martin< no role > , Thomas Barret< no role > , Charles Hathaway< no role > , Richard Dartnan< no role > , William Philips< no role > , William
Bowsey
< no role > , Humphrey Fort< no role > , William Dewer< no role > , Alexander Webster< no role > , Thomas Vickery< no role > , Jeffery Sadler< no role > , John Reynolds< no role > , Robert Loxham< no role >
Thomas Wild< no role > , Timothy Ball< no role > and John Griffiths< 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 Matthew Greenaker< no role > came to his
Death do upon their Oath say, That the said Matthew Greenaker< no role > , not being of sound
Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted, on the First day of May
in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid,
one End of a certain piece of small Lord, unto an Iron Hook fastened into one of the Joifts
in the Lodging Room or Apartment of him the said Matthew Greenaker, in the Dwelling
House of Thomas Harris< no role > situate and being in Langley Street in the said Parish Liberty
and County, 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 Matthew Greenaker then and there died. And so the
Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said Matthew Greenaker
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 an well the said Coroner, as the said Joseph Sutton< 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 the Day Year and Place first
above written

Tho Prickard< no role > Coroner .

Joseph Sutton< no role > Foreman




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