City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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3rd January 1791 - 30th December 1791

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Image 135 of 67211th March 1791


London


T Shelton
Corr.


An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London
that is to say at the Parish of Saint Botolph without Bishopsgate in the Ward
of Bishopsgate without in London aforesaid on the eleventh day of March in the Thirty second
Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord the third by the Grace of God of Great Britain
France and Ireland KIng defender of the faith and so forth 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 Jane Price< no role > now here lying dead by the Oath of Thomas Hunt< no role >
good and lawful men of the City of London who
being now here duly chosen sworn and charged to inquest said lord the King
when how and in what matter the said Jane Price< no role > came to her death say upon their Oath that
the said Jane Price< no role > not being of sound mind memory and understanding but Lunatic
and distracted on the ninth day of March in the Year aforesaid with a certain large knife of the
value of One penny which she in her right hand had and hate the Neck and Threat of her
the said Jane Price< no role > with the Knife aforesaid did then a nd there violently cut giving to herself
the said Jane Price< no role > with the Knife aforesaid one Mortal Wound in and upon the Threat of her
the said Jane Price< no role > of which said mortal Wound she the said Jane Price< no role > did then
and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid so say that
that the said Jane Price< no role > not being of sound mind memory and understanding but
lunatic and distracted in manner and by the means aforesaid did kill herself In
Witness whereof as will the said Coroner as the said Thomas Hunt< no role > the foreman of the
said Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his follows have to their Inquisition
set their hands and seals the day year and place first above written.

Thos. Hunt< no role >




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