City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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1st January 1778 - 31st December 1778

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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 Seventh day of April in the Eighteenth 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
Sarah Wall< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Andrew
Hogg
< no role > , Daniel Stump< no role > , Archibald Smith< no role > , James Clapperton< no role > , John
Southsby
< no role > Robert Salmon< no role > , Hudson Mason< no role > , Thomas Sherborn< no role > , John
Richards
< no role > , William Howlitt< no role > , John Street< no role > , John Barber< no role > , William Dodd< no role >
Saml. Kenrick< no role > , Thos. Colcomb< no role > & Geo: Donaldson< 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 Sarah Wall< no role > came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Sarah Wall< no role > not being of
sound Mind Memory and Understanding but lunatick and
distracted, on the Sixth day of April in the Year aforesaid at the
Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid,
one End of a certain Silk Handkerchief unto an Iron Rod by the
Bedside in the Apartment of the said Sarah Wall< no role > in the dwelling-
House of Francis Barron< no role > situate and being 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 Sarah Wall< no role > then and
there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath
aforesaid dosay, that the said Sarah Wall< 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 Andrew Hogg< 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

Andw: HoggForeman




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