City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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5th January 1793 - 30th December 1793

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City and Liberty
of Westminster ,
In the County of
Middlesex .}
to wit,


In Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King at the House of Thos. Daws< no role > Sign of the George in Davies Street parish of St. 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 first day of August 1793 in the thirty third
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 Anthony
Gell
< no role > , Esq . Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on
View of the Body of Thomas Goodhind< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of the several Jurors where Names are hereunder written and
Seals affixed

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 Thomas Goodhind< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say that the said Thomas Goodhind< no role > not being of sound
Mind Memory & understanding, but lunatic & distracted on the said first day of
August in the year aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty aforesaid
in the Dwelling House of Robert Hill< no role > there scituate, with a certain Raser made of
Iron & Stall, which he the said Thomas Goodhind< no role > then & there had & held in
his right hand, the Throat or Gullet of him the said Thomas Goodhind, did then
and there strike stab and penetrate, thereby, then & there giving unto
himself the said Thomas Goodhind< no role > , sobing lunatic and distracted
as aforesaid, with the Raser aforesaid, in or upon the Throat or Gullet of
him the said Thomas Goodhind, One Mortal Wound of the length
of three Inches, & of the depth of one Inch; Of which said Mortal
Wound, he the said Thomas Goodhind< no role > then & there instantly died.

And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that
the said Thomas Goodhind< no role > not being of sound Mind, Memory &
Understanding but lunatic & distracted in manner and by the
means aforesaid, did kill himself. In Witness where of as
well the said Coroner as the said Jurors, have, to this Inquisition
set their hands & Seals the day, year & place above written.

Anthy. Gell< no role >
Coroner }

Daniel Orme< no role >
Foreman [mark]
John Marshall< no role >

Wm. Walker< no role >
John Piddington< no role >
Robt. Ross< no role >

Thos Lyne< no role >
John Rogers< no role >
The Mark [mark] of
James Laws< no role > [mark]
Thos Brooks< no role >
Chs Townsend< no role >

Richd Gawett< no role >
John Clarke< no role >
Jonas Murry< no role >




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