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

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Image 103 of 6322nd January 1782


MIDDLESEX .
(To wit.)}


AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish
of Enfield in the County of
Middlesex , the Second Day of January in the twenty Second 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 Phillips< no role >
one of the Coroners of our said Lord the King for the said County, on View of the Body of
Rachael Lawes< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
William Robertson< no role > Thomas Tokelove< no role > William Spicer< no role > John Willmot< no role > William Cuffley< no role > John Wright< no role >
Robert Morris< no role > Dennis Brown< no role > William Mitchell< no role > Joseph Mathews< no role > Richard Fisher< no role > Joseph Winterbourn< no role >
John Chesshett< no role > John Johnson< no role > and Thomas Liley< 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 Rachael Lawes< no role > came to her
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Rachael Lawes< no role > not being of sound
Mind, Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted on the Twenty ninth
Day of December in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the County aforesaid with
a certain Razor made of Iron and [..] teel of the Value of Two Pence which she the
Rachael Lawes< no role > then and there [..] held in her Right Hand the Throat or [..] urld [..]
[..] her the said [..] stab and [..]
[..] chael La [..] Understa< no role > [..]
and distracted in [..] hill herself

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said William Robertson< 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

Wm Robertson< no role > [mark] Foreman




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