City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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9th January 1797 - 29th December 1797

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City of Liberty
of Westminster ,
in the County of
Middlesex ,

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to Wit.

An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King at The House of Joseph Southam< no role > the Sign of the Blackamoor's head in Jermyn Street Parish of
Saint James within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church
of St. Peter, Westminster , in the County of Middlesex , the nineteenth day of August 1797
in the thirty Seventh 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 the Right Honble Lord Viscount Mountmorres 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 Lord viscount Mountmorres came to h is Death, do upon
their Oath say that the said Lord Viscount Mountmorres" not being
"of sound Mind Memory and understanding but lunatic
"and distracted on the eighteenth day of August in the Year
aforesaid, at the Parish and in the Liberty aforesaid a certain
Pistol charged with gun Powder and a leaden bullet which he
the said Lord Viscount Mountmorres then and there had and
held in his right hand, to and within the Mouth of him the said
Lord viscount Mountmorres did then and there shoot off and
discharge by means whereof he the said Lord viscount Mountmorres did
then and there give unto himself with the leaden bullet aforesaid so dis-
charged and shot out of the Pistol aforesaid by the force of the Gun-
-Powder aforesaid in and upon the roof of the Mouth of him the said
Lord Viscount Mountmorres one Mortal Wound; Of Which said
Mortal Wound he the said Lord Viscount Mountmorres
then and there instantly died. And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Lord viscount
Mountmorres "not being of sound Mind' Memory and Understanding
"but lunatic and distracted"in manner and by the Means aforesaid
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 }

John Willow< no role > Foreman
John Howell< no role >
Jno. Perigal< no role >
George Lamb< no role >
Thomas Mitchall< no role >
Henry Danton< no role >
[..]
Isaac Bingham< no role >
Joseph Stevenson< no role >
Thos. Welch< no role >
Peter Wilson< no role >
Jas. Clemmett< no role >
Henry Daved< no role >




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