City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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2nd January 1795 - 28th December 1795

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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 House of George Westcott< no role > Sign of the Halford arms in Park Street , 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 Second day of April 1795
in the thirty fifth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord G E O R G E 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 Anne Larking< no role > then and there
lying dead , upon the Oath of the several Jurors whose Names are here under 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 Anne Larking came to her Death, do upon
their Oath say that the said Anne Larking not being of sound Mind
Memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted, on the
thirty first day of March in the year aforesaid at the Parish and
in the Liberty aforesaid one and of a certain piece of Ribb and unto
a Beam in the middle of the Wash-house belonging the Dwelling
House of Lady Mary Mordaunts< no role > situate in Park Street aforesaid, and
the other end thereof about her own Neck, did fix bye and fasten
and therewith did then and there hang suffocate and strangle
herself : Of which said Hanging, sufforation and Strangling
do the said Aune Larking then and there instantly died
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid
do say, that the said Aune Larking, not being of sound
Mind, Memory and understanding, but lunatic and
distracted in manner and by the means aforesaid
did kill herself

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Jurors, have to this Inquisition
set their Hands and Seals the Day, Year, and Place first above written.

Anthy Gell< no role >
Coroner }

Benjn, Blake< no role >
Thos Weaver< no role >
Wm Britten< no role >
Thos Chatham< no role >
Wm. Jones< no role >

Thomas Burch< no role >
John Reynolds< no role >
Jo Crew< no role >
John Arhorn< no role >
Jos Evans< no role >
James Stephens< no role >
Saml. Cliff< no role >

Thomas Hawkins< no role >
James Morris< no role >
Thos. Poston< no role >




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