City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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3rd January 1798 - 31st December 1798

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Image 54 of 89923rd January 1798


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 ofCarpmeal the Sign of the Coach Houses in Mount Street
in the 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 twenty third Day of January
in the thirty eighth 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 William Whitehouse< 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 William Whitehouse< no role > came to h is Death, do upon
their Oath say that the said William Whitehouse< no role > not being of sound
Mind Memory and understanding but Lunatic and distracted
on the twenty first Day of January in the year aforesaid at the
Parish and in the Liberty aforesaid one end of a certain Piece
of small Cord unto an is on staple fastened to the Bar of the
Chamber Door of a certain Room in which the said William
Whitehouse
< no role > was confined situate in the said Parish & Liberty and
the other and thereof about his own Neck did fix tye and faster and therewith
did them or not there hang suffocate and Strangle himself of which said
Hanging Suffocation Strangling he the said William Whitehouse< no role > then and
there Died, And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid
[..] say that the said William Whitehouse< no role > 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 Inquisition
set their Hands and Seals the Day, Year, and Place first above written.

Anthy. Gell< no role >
Coroner }

John Ladiely< no role > [mark]
John Donaldson< no role > [mark]
Isaac Curtiss< no role > [mark]
W. Gibson [mark]
Richd Packe< no role > [mark]

Mayer Rothenburg< no role > [mark]
Thos. Shankster< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. [mark]
William Gidden< no role > [mark]
Jno Dawkins< no role > [mark]
Jas Gorny< no role > [mark]
Thos Whiting< no role > [mark]

Jno. Cotties< no role > [mark]
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