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 William House< no role > the Sign Bricklayers arms in Sturton Ground Parish
of Saint John within the Liberty of Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church
in the thirty fifth Yeat 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 Mary Carvin< no role > then and there
lying dead , upon the Oath of the several Jurors whose Names are here underwritten, 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 Mary Cansin< no role > came to her Death, do upon
their Oath say that the said Mary Carwin< no role > not being of Sound Mind Memory
and understanding lunatic and distracted on the twenty ninth day of July
in the year aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty aforesaid a small
Quantity of [..] (being a deadly Poison did then and there take drink
and Swallow down by means whereof she the said Mary Camsin< no role >
become then and there sick and distempered in her Body and of the
Person aforesaid and of the Sickess & distemper thereby occasioned from
the said twenty ninth day of July in the year aforesaid untill the tenth
day of August in the same year at the Parish and in the Liberty
aforesaid did, languish, and languishing did live, on which said tenth
day of August in the year aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty
aforesaid she the said Mary Cansin< no role > of the Person aforesaid and of
the Sickness and Distemper occasioned thereby did die And so the
Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said
Mary Cansin not being of sound Mind Memory & 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 Inqusition
set their Hands and Seals the Day, Year, and Place first above written.

Anthye Gell< no role >
Coroner
Jonathan Page< no role >
Foreman }
Thos Trotman< no role >
Henry [..]
John Hayes< no role >
Thos, Owens< no role >
Andw Turnbull< no role >

William Porter< no role >
William Steeve< no role >
Lionel Galley< no role >
Bazill [..]
John Randall< no role >
Henry Kenlatt< no role >
William Reid< no role >

John Harper< no role >
the Mark [mark] of [..] Lang [..]
James Mansell< no role >
the [mark] Mark of John
Matt
< no role > .




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