City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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4th January 1768 - 31st December 1768

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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 Fifteenth day of July in the Eighth 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
Elizabeth Woydon< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Francis Fether< no role >
Richard Sells< no role > , William Tomlin< no role > , William Rothwell< no role > , John Hollscomb< no role > , James Polard< no role > , James
Hartley
< no role > , Edmund Levick< no role > , Philip Hideman< no role > , Edmund Dann< no role > , James Beck< no role > , George Glover< no role >
John Leitch< no role > and John Butler< no role > good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
chosen, 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 Elizabeth Woydon came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say That the said Elizabeth Woydon labouring under
a grievous Disease of Body (to wit) a Fever, and by reason of the violence of the
said Disease being delicious and out of her Mind on the fourteenth day of July in
the Year aforesaid from and out of a certain Garrett Window then and there being in the
House of Mr Robert Woydon< no role > of Monmouth Court in the Parish and County aforesaid
to the Ground did violently cast and threw herself to and against the [..] Pavement
in the said Court by means whereof she the said Elizabeth Woydon So delicious and
out of her Mind as aforesaid did then and there Receive a Violent Concession of the
Brain, of which said Violent Concession she the said Elizabeth Woydon then and
there instantly Died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say
that the said Elizabeth Woydon in manner and by the Means aforesaid being delicious
and out of her Mind as aforesaid by reason of the Violence of the disease aforesaid did
Kill herself. In Witness whereof as well the Coroner as the Foreman of the said Jurors
have hereunto set their hands and Seals the day and Year above written.

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

Francis Fether< no role > [mark] Foreman




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