Middlesex Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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Image 254 of 63224th October 1782


MIDDLESEX .
(To wit)}


AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at The Parish
of Saint Mathew Bethnall Green in the County of
Middlesex , the Twenty fourth Day of October 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
John Sabourin then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
William Greenwood< no role > , Daniel Dupee< no role > , John Merceron< no role > Jarvis Baucher< no role > , Peter
Bandry, James Shakeshaft< no role > , James, Henshaw< no role > Thomas [..] Bakers< no role > Francis Greenwood< no role >
John Knight< no role > , James Sameuel< no role > , Lewis Godfrey< no role > , John Godfrey< no role > , John Martin< no role > and
Peter Morgan< 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 John Sabourin came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said John Sabourin not being of sound
Mind Memory and Understanding But Lunatic and distracted on the
Twenty second Day of October in the said Twenty second year of the Reign of our said
Lord the King a certain Piece of small cord called a Weavers Weight Rope to a
Board at The Door of his Lodging Room or Apartment situate in Fleet Street
in the Parish and County aforesaid and the other End thereof about his own Neck
Did fix tye and fasten and therewith Did then and there hang, suffocate and
strangle himself Of which said Hanging Suffocation and Strangling he the said
John Sabourin then and there Died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath
aforesaid Do say That the said John Sabourin not being of sound Mind
Memory and Understanding But Lunatic and distracted in Manner and by the
Means aforesaid Did kill himself

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said William Greenwood< 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. Greenwood [mark] Foreman




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