Middlesex Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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1st September 1747 - 13th June 1803

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MIDDLESEX
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AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the [..]
[..] in the County of
Middlesex , the [..] Day of [..] in the [..] Year of the Reign of our
Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, Great-Britain, France, and
Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before Thomas Phillips< no role >
one of the Coroners of our said Lord the King for the said County, on View of the Body of
Martha Jenkin< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
William Jones< no role > Richard Willis< no role > William Cox< no role > . Richard Vinson< no role > , Thomas Benning field Samuel Burman Isaac Boyd< no role >
Stephen Makepeace< no role > Henry Eyrs, Edward Foalsom, Philip Scholey< no role > Isaac Evans< no role > , James Manning< no role > . George Filkins< no role >
James Dugwell< no role > Thomas Bartlett< no role > , George Huflett< no role > William Jennings< no role > and William Watson< no role >
good and lawful Men of the said County, duly chosen, and who being then and there duly
sworn and charged to inquire, for our said Lord the King, when, how, and by what Means, the
said Martha Jenkin< no role > came to her
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said Martha Jenkin< no role > not being of sound
Mind. Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted on the Nineteenth
Day of June in the Year aforesaid One End of a small lord to a Wooden Rafter in the
Necessary belonging to the House of George Pratt< no role > situate in The Hamlet and County
aforesaid 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 Martha Jenkin< no role > then and there died
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said
Martha Jenkin< 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 the said Coroner as the said William Jones< no role >
the Foreman of the said Jurors, on the Behalf of himself and the Rest of his said Fellows, in
their Presence, have, to this Inquisition, set their Hands and Seals, the Day and Year first
above written.

Thos. Phillips< no role > [mark] Coroner
William Jones< no role > [mark] Foreman




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