City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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5th January 1793 - 30th December 1793

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Image 102 of 80118th February 1793


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


An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King at the Dwelling House of Nathaniel Okey< no role > in Conduit Street Parish of St. George Hanover Square being the Sign of the Conduit
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Eighteenth day of February 1793 in the thirty third
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 Anthony
Gell
< no role > , Esq . Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on
View of the Body of Mary Eliner< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of John Hurley< no role > , Henry Nichols< no role > , James Allardice< no role > , William Pryor< no role >
Charles Lambert< no role > , Anthy Damm< no role > , James Melvine< no role > , William Summert,
Nicholas Meredith< no role > , George Parker< no role > , John Calloway< no role > , and Edward Ball< no role >
good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
chosen, who being then and there duly sworn charged to enquire for our said Lord the
King, when, how, and by what Means the said Mary Elmer< no role > came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say That the said Mary Elmer< no role > , not being of sound
Mind, Memory and Understanding, but lunatic and distracted, on the Sixteenth
day of February, in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish and in the Liberty aforesaid
one End of a certain Piece of small Cad unto a Beam which was across an Outhouse in the Yard
belonging, to the dwelling House of Sir Francis Molyneux< no role > in Conduit Street aforesaid (with whom
she the said Mary Elmer< no role > lived lived with as Cook) and the other End thereof about her own Neck, did
fix, tye, and fasten, and therewith did then and there hang, suffocate, and strangle herself,
Of which said hanging, Suffocation and Strangling she the said Mary Elmer< no role >
then and there died: And so the Jurors aforesaid, upon their Oath aforesaid, do
say, that the said Mary Elmer< no role > , not being of sound Mind, Memory & Understanding
but lunatic and distracted in manner and by the Means aforesaid did
kill herself.In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the
said Jurors have to this Inquisition set their hands and Seals the Day
Year and Place first above - written.

Anthony Gell< no role >
Coroner }
John Henley< no role >
Foreman
Henry Nicholas< no role >
Jas Allardice< no role >
Wm. Prayer< no role >

Chas. Lambert< no role >
Anthy. Dams< no role >
James [..]
Wm Summods< no role >
Nichs Meredith< no role >
George Parker< no role >

John Calloway< no role >
Edward Ball< no role >




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