City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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7th January 1783 - 30th December 1783

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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 George Hanover Square
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Tenth day of December in the twenty fourth
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 a Woman unknown then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Lustan Vaughan< no role > , James Latham< no role > , Robert
Seabrook
< no role > , Michael Lowe,< no role > Charles Walpole< no role > , William
Coward
< no role > Edward Hill< no role > John Mew< no role > , Butiff Hoy< no role > ,
John White< no role > William Harding< no role > and William Warren< 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 Woman unknown came to
her Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Woman whose Name
is unknown, not being of sound Mind Memory and
Understanding, but lunatick and distracted, on the
Eighth day of December in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish
and in the County aforesaid, to Wit, into the Reservoir
in the Green Park there did cast and throw herself
by Means of which said Casting and Throwing she
the said Woman unknown in the Waters thereof was
then and there Suffocated and Drowned, of which said
Suffocation and Drowning she the said Woman whose
Name is unknown then and there died. And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said
Woman unknown not being of sound Mind Memory and
Understanding but lunatick and distracted in Manner
and by the Means aforesaid did drown herself
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the
said Lustan Vaughan< 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 abovementioned.

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner

Lastan Vaughan [mark] Foreman




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