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 Saint 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 Twenty third 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
Sarah Carrick< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of John
Maiden
< no role > , William Collins< no role > , William Johnston< no role > , Andrew Booth< no role > , John
Stockton
< no role > , James Parry< no role > , Isaac Farlow< no role > , Charles Wright< no role > , Richard Barry< no role >
Thomas Coward< no role > , Thomas Teague< no role > , Thomas Latham< no role > , Andrew Batty< no role > , Peter
Bergman
< no role > , Henry Cotton< no role > & Thomas Ashton< 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 Carrick came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say , That the said Sarah Carrick not being
of sound Mind Memory and Understanding but lunatick
and distracted on the Twenty second day of January in the
Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the LIberty and County
aforesaid, one End of a Certain Piece of small Cord unto an
Iron Hook fastened into the Wainscot in the Lodging Room or
Apartment of her the said Sarah Carrick in the Dwelling House
of Mr. Wells 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 there with did then and there Hang
Suffocation and Strangling she the said Sarah Carrick
then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their
Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Sarah Carrick not being
of sound 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
John Maiden< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors in 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
Jno Maiden Foreman




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