City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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14th January 1785 - 26th December 1785

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Image 190 of 69714th April 1785


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


An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King at The Parish of Saint Paul Covent Garden
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter , Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the fourteenth day of April in the twenty fifth
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 Richard Coulthard< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Moses Laney< no role > , Richard Palmer< no role > , John Sheppard< no role > ,
John Sorrell< no role > , William Brown< no role > , William Barrington< no role > . Alexander
Rowland
< no role > , George Askew< no role > , John Greasham< no role > , John Withers< no role > ,
John Mc. Kenley< no role > , John Moore< no role > , William Sellman< no role >
and George Prossey< 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 Richard Coulthard< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Richard Coulthard< no role >
not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding but
luantick and distracted, on the said fourteenth day of April
in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish aforesaid within the
Liberty and County aforesaid with a certain Razor made of
Iron and Steel which he the said Richard Coulthard< no role > then
and there had and held in his Right Hand the Throat or Gullet
of him the said Richard Coulthard< no role > did then and there strike
stab and penetrate, thereby then and there giving unto
himself with the Razor aforesaid in and upon the Throat
or Gullet of him the said Richard Coulthatd one mortal Wound
of the length of three Inches and of the depth of one Inch, of which
said Mortal Wound he the said Richard Coulthard< no role > then and there
instantly died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath
aforesaid do say, That the said Richard Coulthard< no role > , not being of
sound Mind Memory and Understanding but lunatick and distracted
in Manner and by the Means aforesaid did kill himself
In Witness whereof as well said Coroner as the said Moses
Lany
< 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
abovewritten

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

Moses Lany< no role > Foreman




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