Middlesex Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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1st May 1781 - 31st December 1799

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Middlesex
To Wit.

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An Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the [..] of the [..]
in the County of Middlesex , the first Day of May in the 22d. 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 Edward Umfreville< no role > one of the Coroners of Our said Lord
the KING, for the said County, on view of the body of Elizabeth Norris< no role >
then and there lying dead, upon the oath of Henry Barney Mayhew< no role >
Thomas Coombe< no role > Benjamin Bayless< no role > Abrahams Francia< no role > Joseph Simpson< no role >
John Hull< no role > Richard Jones< no role > Robert Mason< no role > Henry Calton< no role > Robert Barton< no role >
Thomas Bratton< no role > and Peter Crow< no role >

good and lawful Men of the said County duly chosen as by Law, required, and who being then and there duly sworn
and charged to enquire for our said Lord the KING, when, how, and by what means the said Elizabeth
Norris came to h er Death, Do upon their Oath say, That The said Elizabeth Norris< no role >
not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted
on this Fifth Day of May in the year aforesaid at the Liberty and County aforesaid
with a certain [..]
Elizabeth Norris< no role > there [..]
herself [..] one End of a Piece of Small Cord to a Hook and the other End thereof
about her own Neck did fix, tye and fasten and therewith did then and there hang
suffocate and strangle herself of which said Hanging Suffocation and Strangling she
the said Elizabeth Norris< no role > then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their
Oath aforesaid Do say That the said Elizabeth Norris< 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 well as the said Coroner, as the said Henry Barney Mayhew 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 and Year first abovementioned

E. Umfreville [mark] Coronr.

H: B: Mayhew [mark] Foreman




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