City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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5th January 1789 - 29th December 1789

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Image 394 of 76614th July 1789


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 James
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Fourteenth day of July in the twenty ninth
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 Charles Morgan< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Thomas Faram< no role > , William Cambell< no role > , George Reitz< no role > , John
Crouch
< no role > , Robert Ferrier< no role > , Michael Willer< no role > , Thomas Benham< no role > Thomas
Glegg
< no role > , Henry Calley< no role > , John Cornish< no role > , Peter Coleman< no role > , Robert Fellowes< no role >
Charles Richards< no role > and John Angles< 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 Charles Morgan came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Charles Morgan not being
of sound Mind Memory and Understanding but Lunatick and
distracted on the said fourteenth day of July in the Year aforesaid
one End of a certain Piece of Cord unto an Iron Hook fastened in
a Wooden Quarter in the lodging Room or Apartment of him the
said Charles Morgan in the dwelling House of Morgan Williams< no role >
situate in King Street in the said Parish of St. James within
the Liberty and County aforesaid and the other End thereof about
his own Neck did fix tye and fasten and therewith did then and
there hang suffocate and strange himself of which said hanging
suffocation and strangling he the said Charles Morgan then and
there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do
say that the said Charles Morgan not being of sound Mind Memory
and understand but Lunatick and distracted in manner and by
the means aforesaid did hill himself.

In Witness whereof as well the said
Coroner as the said Thomas Faram 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 > Coroner

Thomas Faram< no role > Foreman




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