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

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Image 569 of 8589th July 1799


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Thomas 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 Saint Botolph without Bishopsgate in the ward of Bithopsgate
in London aforesaid on the ninth day of July 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 Ann Woolley< no role > now here lying dead by the oath
of William Shannon< no role > , Samuel King< no role > , John Davis< no role > , William Barker< no role > , John King< no role > , George
Osborne,
< no role > William Barnfield< no role > , James Lawrence< no role > , William Allin< no role > , John Viven< no role > , John
Wood
< no role > , John Henley< no role > , Bluck, Edward Bott< no role > , Nathan Doroner< no role > , John Page< no role > , Walter Rochfort< no role > ,
Lewis Williams< no role > , John Capron< no role > , and David West< 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 Ann Woolley came
to her death say upon their oath that the said Ann Woolley< no role > on the first day of July
in the year aforesaid at the parish and Ward aforesaid in London aforesaid not being
of sound mind memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted with a certain
knife of the value of two pence which she [..] in her right hand then and there had
and held the throat of herself the said Ann Woolley< no role > did then and there violently cut
thereby giving to herself the said Ann Woolley< no role > one mortal wound in and upon her
throat of which said mortal wound she the said Ann Woolley< no role > from the said first day
of July in the year aforesaid until the eighth day of the same month of July in the same year
at the parish and ward aforesaid in London aforesaid did languish and languishing
did live on which said eighth day of July in the year aforesaid the said Ann Woolley< no role > at
the parish and Ward aforesaid in London aforesaid of the said mortal wound did die
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said Ann Woolley< no role >
not being of sound mind memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted
did in manner and by the means aforesaid kill herselfIn Witness whereof as
well the said Coroner as the said William Shannon< 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. Shannon< no role > [mark]




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