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 Richard Nightingale< no role > the Sign of the Crown in york Street Paris of Saint
Margaret within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church
in the thirty fifth 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 Jeremiah Corley< 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 duty sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the King, when, how, and by
what Means the said Jeremiah Corley< no role > came to his Death, do upon
their Oath say that the said Jeremiah Corley< no role > not being of sound Mind Memory
and understanding but delicious and distracted on the second day of
August in the year aforesaid at the Parish of st. Martin in the Fields
in the Liberty aforesaid from and out of a certain two pair of Stairs
Window then and there being in the Chamber or Apartment of him the
said Jeremiah Corley in a certain House in Round Court did violently
cast and thow himself to the ground to and against the Stone
Pavement in round Court aforesaid by means of which said Casting
and Throwing he the said Jeremiah Caley< no role > did then and that receive
a Mortal laceration on the light Lobe of the Liver of him the Said Jeremiah
Corley
< no role > : of Which said Mortal Wound he the said Jeremiah Caley at rhe
Westminster Infirmary in the Parish of St. Margaret aforesaid in the
Liberty aforesaid did languish and languishing did live untill the
eighth day of the same Month in the same year on which said eighth day
of august at the said Westminster Infirmary of the Mortal Laceration aforesaid
he the said Jeremiah Corley< no role > did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon
their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said Jeremiah Corley not being of
sound of Mind Memory and understanding but delirious and distracted
in manner and by the Means aforesaid did kil himself
did kill himself

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

Anthy Gell< no role >
Coroner
Rd. Hodgson< no role >
Foreman }
John Fall< no role >
Thos. [..]
John Bowry< no role >

Ths. Cowderey< no role >
Wm. Ventors< no role >
John Lane< no role >
John Hendric
C Smith
< no role >
Thomas Rice< no role >

John Machin< no role >
Thos Hospell< no role >
Wm Sinnoch< no role >




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