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

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Image 155 of 89919th March 1798


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


to wit,
An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King, at the House of Mr Puncheon the Sign of the Kings Arms in Grafton Street parish of
St. Anne Soho 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 March 1798
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 Thomas Flemming< 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 Thomas Flemming< no role > came to h is Death, do upon
their Oath say that the said Thomas Flemming< no role > not being of sound Mind
Memory and Understanding but lunatic and distracted on the nineteenth
day of March in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty aforesaid
from and out of a certain three pair of stairs window then & there being
in the Chamber or apartment of him the said Thomas Flemming< no role > in the Dwelling
of Mary Green< no role > situate in Grafton Street aforesaid did violently cast & throw
himself to the Ground By means of which said Casting & throwing he
the said Thomas Flemming< no role > did then & there receive diver mortal
Bruises of which said Mortal Bruises he the said Thomas
Flemming
< no role > then and there instantly died. And so the
Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that
the said Thomas Flemming< no role > not being of sound Mind
Memory and Understanding but lunatic & distracted
in manner & 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 }

Phillip Adams< no role >
Giles Hemens< no role >
John Glazier< no role >
David Hill< no role >
Wm Atkins< no role >
E Pearcy

Jas Shaw< no role >
Thos. Little< no role >
Thos Butler< no role >
Robt Jameson< no role >
L Whittam

William Goldsmith< no role > [..]
Samuel Worthy< no role >
David Stout< no role >
Jas. Smart< no role >




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