City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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3rd January 1799 - 31st December 1799

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Image 519 of 85824th June 1799


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Thos. Shelton< no role >
Corr. [mark]


An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to say,
at the parish of Allhallows Lombard street in the ward of Lang bourn in London aforesaid on the
twenty fourth day of June in the thirty ninth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George
the third King of Great Britain 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
Mary Celey< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of Thomas Cood< no role > John Irvin< no role > Thomas Greenhill< no role >
Edward Bacon< no role > Thomas Mathews< no role > William Inall< no role > George Wilnshurst< no role > Philip Jones< no role > Richard
Jones John Gardner< no role > Thomas Brasier Robert Butler< no role > William Henman< no role > Samuel Mann< no role >
and John Salmon< no role > good and lawful men of the City of London aforesaid who being now
here duly chosen sworn and changed to inquire for our said Lord the King when how and in
what manner the said Mary Celey< no role > came to her death say upon their oath that the said Mary Celey< no role >
not being of sound mind memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted on the
twenty second day of June in the year aforesaid at the parish and Ward aforesaid in
London aforesaid with a certain case knife of the value of six pence which she in her
right hand then and there had and hold the throat of herself the said Mary Celey< no role > did then
and there violently cut thereby giving to himself the said Mary Celey< no role > one mortal wound
in and upon her throat of which said mortal wound she the said Mary Celey< no role > did
then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that
the said Mary Celey< no role > not being of sound mind memory and understanding but lunatic
and distracted did in manner and by the means aforesaid kill herself. In Witness
whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Thomas Cood< 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.

Thos Cood< no role > [mark]




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