City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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3rd January 1774 - 20th December 1774

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City and Liberty
of Westminster
in the County of
Middlesex }
to wit.


In Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King, at the Parish of Saint Margaret
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter,Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Twenty fifth day of June in the Fourteenth 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 Prickard< no role > , Gentleman ,
Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of
John Parke< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Joseph
Ashmore
< no role > , Richard Williams< no role > , John Smith< no role > , Samuel Ray< no role > , Thomas Gladwin< no role > , William
Crandell
< no role > , Christopher Hawkes< no role > , John Emerson< no role > , Humphry Wheelright< no role > , Joseph Smith< no role > , John
Morrison
< no role > and Jarvis Littlefear< no role > good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
chosen, 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 John Parke< no role > came to
his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said John Parke< no role > , not being of sound
Mind Memory and Understanding but lunatick and distracted
on the Twenty fourth day of June in the Year aforesaid one End of a certain
Piece of Worsted Lace unto one of the Wooden Rafters of a Shed
adjoining to the dwelling House of the said John Parke< no role > situate in
Blue Anchor Yard in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty 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 Parke< no role > then and there died.
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say,
that the said John Parke< no role > , in Manner and by the Means aforesaid,
came to his Death, not being of sound Mind Memory and
Understanding but lunatick and distracted as aforesaid. In Witness
whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said Joseph Ashmore< no role > Foreman
of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows
in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals,
the Day Year and Place first above written

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

Jos. Ashmore< no role > Foreman




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