City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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5th January 1789 - 30th December 1789

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Image 548 of 10194th August 1789


London
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Southwark
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T. Shelton
Corr. [mark]


An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London, that is to
say, at the Parish of Saint Stephen Coleman Street in the Ward of Coleman Street in London aforesaid on the fourth day
of August in the twenty ninth 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 Etc before Thomas Shelton< no role > Gentleman Coroner of our said Lord the King for the
City of London and Borough of Southwark on view of the Body of George Goodwin< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of
Richard Read< no role > Jacob Horn< no role > John James Fisher< no role > George Knight< no role > John Heapey< no role > John Asheton Howes, Charles Thorpe< no role > Edward Robert Joseph Kinsiff
Richard Woodhouse< no role > George Smart< no role > Thomas Skeen< no role > John Wooton< no role > Robert Clark< no role > Samuel Batho and William Hawkins< no role > good
and lawful men of the City of London aforesaid who being now here duly chosen sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord
the King when how hand in what manner the said George Goodwin< no role > came to his death say upon their oath that
the said George Goodwin< no role > not being of sound mind memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted
on the second day of July in the twenty ninth year aforesaid at the Parish and Ward aforesaid in London aforesaid
one end of a certain rope of no value round the Bean of a certain Gateway in a certain Alley called Whitealley there
situate and the other and of the said rope unto and about his own Neck then and there did fix tie and fasten and that
he hereby did then and there hang strangle and suffocate himself Of which said hanging strangling and suffocation he
the said George Goodwin< no role > did then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said George
Goodwin not being of sound mind memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted in manner and by the means
aforesaid did hang and kill himself In Witnesses whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Richard Read< no role > the Foreman of the said
Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows in their presence have to this Inquisition set their hands and seals the day year and place
first above written

Richd. Read< no role > [mark] Foreman




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