Middlesex
(to wit)}
An Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at The Parish
of Saint Mary le Bone
in the County of Middlesex
, the twenty first day of
October in the twenty sixth 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
Mary Bullen< no role >
then and there lying dead
upon the Oath of
Thomas Edwards< no role >
,
William Howard< no role >
,
James Legg< no role >
,
Charles
Hosken< no role >
,
John Brand< no role >
John Chettesden< no role >
,
Francis Rigard< no role >
,
Richard Hawkins< no role >
Thomas Whitton< no role >
,
Francis Metclaf< no role >
, Matthew Place,
Will
Wallace Williams< no role >
James Birket< no role >
Edward Pierice< no role >
Moses Cumms< no role >
John Bridges< no role >
,
Phillip Buckingham< no role >
Thomas Speechley< no role >
Thomas Birchmore< no role >
and
William Lenny< 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
Mary Bullen< no role >
came to her Death, do upon their
Oath say That the said
Mary Bullen< no role >
on the nineteenth Day of October in the Year
aforesaid being a patient in the Middlesex Hospital
in the Parish and County aforesaid
and not being of sound mind Memory and understanding but Lunatic and distracted
herself out of a Window in the ward called The Right Ward to and upon the Stone
[..] ment there did cast and th
[..] By means, whereof she the said
Mary Bullen< no role >
then and there received divers Mortal Fractures in and upon the Head, Jaws and Arms of
her the said
Mary Bullen< no role >
and by the concusion occasioned by the said Fall the liver and
Spleen of her the said
Mary Bullen< no role >
were then and there Mortally lacerted, of which
said mortal Laceration she the said
Mary Bullen< no role >
then and there instantly died And so the
Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say That the said
Mary Bullen< 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 Coroners as the said
Thomas Edwards< 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
Thomas Edwards< no role >
[mark] Foreman