City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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1st January 1779 - 29th December 1779

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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 Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Seventh day of January in the Nineteenth 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
Trimnell Saunders< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Thomas
Wilson
< no role > , John Cheney< no role > , James Ansell< no role > , George Jefferys< no role > , William Gwynn< no role >
John Verron< no role > , Joseph Fuller< no role > , William Mc. Ardy< no role > William Stronach< no role > , George
Lark
< no role > , Benjamin Tolley< no role > & Stephen Maddiford< 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 Trimnell Saunders came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Trimnell Saunders, not
being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but
lunatick and distracted on the said Seventh day of January
in the Year aforesaid, one End of his Garter unto an
Iron Hook fastened into the beiling of a Room in the
Dwelling House of John Claverley< no role > Victualler situate at
Abery Farm in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty
and County aforesaid, and the other End thereof about his
own Neck did fix tie and fasten, and there with did then
and there hang suffocate and strangle himself, of which
said Hanging Suffocation and Strangling he the said
Trimnell Saunders then and there died. And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said
Trimnell Sunders 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 as well the said Coroner as the said Thomas Wilson< 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 abovementioned.

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

Thos: Wilson< no role > Foreman




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