City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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1st January 1790 - 31st December 1790

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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 Twelfth day of May in the Thirtieth
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 Susanna Campion< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Thomas Gleaves< no role > , John Hodge< no role > , William Heath< no role > , Samuel Mercer< no role > ,
George Greacham< no role > , Edward Payne< no role > , William Coltman< no role > , Henry Roberts< no role >
Edward Taylor< no role > , Samuel Hatson< no role > , Thomas Story< no role > , George Puller< no role > , Edward Hayley< no role >
Adams Duncan< no role > , John Thompson< no role > , John Ruthenbeck< no role > , Joseph Sayers< no role > , Richard
Manning
< no role > and William Rebock< 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 Susanna Campion came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say That the said Susanna Campion not
being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding but Lunatick and
distracted on the said Twelfth day of May in the Year aforesaid being
alone in her Lodging Room in the Dwelling House of John Bott< no role > situate in
Mercer Street in the said Parish of Saint Martin in the Fields within the
Liberty and County aforesaid out of and through a Window in the said Lodging
Room at the Heighth of Two Stories unto and upon the Stone Pavement in
the said Street did cast and throw herself by reason thereof she the said
Susanna Campion did then and these receive one mortal Wound and Fracture
in and upon the back part of her Head of which said Mortal Wound and
Fracture she the said Susanna Campion then and these instantly died
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the
said Susanna Campion 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 Thomas Gleaves< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors on the
behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows in their Pasenie, have to
this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day year and Place
abovementioned

Tho Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner

Thos Gleaves [mark] Foreman< no role >




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