City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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4th January 1771 - 26th December 1771

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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. John the Evangelist
within the Liberty of Dean and Chapter of he Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Seventeenth day of July in the Eleventh 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
Letitia Turner< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Robert
Clarke
< no role > , Williams Proctor< no role > , Samuel Dixon< no role > Charles Keene< no role > , Elliston Chapman< no role > ,
Henry Cromwell< no role > , James Day< no role > , Robert Bigby< no role > , Thomas Smith< no role > , James Miller< no role > ,
Wiliam Ridout< no role > John Clatt< no role > , Thomas Barlow< no role > , William Jewitt< no role > , Robert Watson< no role >
Samuel brooke< no role > , Samuel Fulmer< no role > and John Phipps< 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 Letitia Turner< no role > came to
h er do upon their Oath say, That the said Letitia Turner< no role > , not being of
sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted,
on the Fifteenth day of July in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish and
in the Liberty and County aforesaid, one End of a certain piece of small
Cord unto the Wooden Rail at the Feet of the Bed in the Lodging Room of
her the said Letitia Turner< no role > , situate in Marsham Street in the said Parish
Liberty and County, and the other End thereof about her own Neck did
fix tye and fasten, and therewith did then and there hang suffocate
and strangle herself, of which said Hanging suffocation and Strangling
She the said Letitia Turner then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Letitia Turner< no role > , not
being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick
and distracted, in Manner and by the Means aforesaid, did hill
herself. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said
Robert Clarke< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself
and the rest of his 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
Robert Clarke< no role > Foreman




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