City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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5th January 1792 - 31st December 1792

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Image 567 of 86110th November 1792


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An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to say at the
parish of Saint Sepulchre in the Ward of Lime Street in London aforesaid on the tenth day of November
in the thirtysecondthird 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 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 John Dunbar< no role > now here lying dead by the Oath of William Williams< no role > , John Dyster< no role > , William
Grisbrooke,
< no role > William Clay< no role > , John Finger< no role > , James Probut< no role > , Samuel Barrow< no role > , John Phillips< no role > , William
Price, Samuel Weston< no role > , James Mills< no role > , Thomas Williams< no role > , Robert Gardner< no role > , Jonathan Aleous,
Thomas Price< no role > , and James Young< 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 and in what
manner the said John Dunbar< no role > came to his death say upon their Oath that the said John
Dunbar on the sixth day of November in the year aforesaid at the parish and Ward aforesaid
in London aforesaid not being of sound memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted a
certain Pistol of the value of 12d loaded with Gunpower and a leader bullett which he the said
John Dunbar< no role > in his right hand then and there had and hold to at and against they left side
of him the said John Dunbar< no role > did then and there shoot off and discharge giving to himself then and
there with the leaden bullet aforesaid so shott off and discharged from the said Pistol by force of the
Gunpowder aforesaid one mortal Wound in and upon the left side of him the said John Dunbar< no role > of the
length of one Inch and depth of three inches of which said mortal Wound the said John Dunbar< no role > from the said sixth
day of Novemberto thein the year aforesaid until the ninth day of the same month of November in the same year
at the said parishofin thea and wardof La [..] aforesaid did languish and languishing did live
On which said ninth day of November in the year aforesaid at the parish and Ward aforesaid in
London aforesaid the said John Dunbar< no role > of the said mortal wound did die And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said John Dunbar< no role > not being of Sound mind memory and
understanding but lunatic and distracted die shoot and kill himself In Witness whereof as well
the said Coroneras the said Coroneras the said William Williams< 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.

Wm. Williams [mark] Foreman< no role >




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