City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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2nd January 1793 - 28th December 1793

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Image 275 of 97818th March 1793


London


T. Shelton
Coroner [mark]


An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord< no role > the King at the
Parish of Saint Olave within the Borough of Southwark on the nineteenth day of March in the
thirty third year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third by the grace of God of Great Britain France [..]
Ireland King defender of the faith and so forth before Thomas Shelton< no role > Gentleman Coroner of our said Lord the
King for the City of London and Borough of Southwark on view of the Body of John Hall< no role > now here lying
dead by the Oath of Robert Standage< no role > William Barton< no role > Philip Hammock< no role > Peter Nallotton< no role > Robert Wilkinson< no role >
Joseph Loftwich< no role > Thomas Palmer< no role > John Powell< no role > Senior James Diken< no role > Joseph Cross< no role > Samuel Watkins< no role > William
Evans and< no role > John Powell< no role > Junior good and lawful men of the City of [..] who being now here duly chosen
sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord the King when how and in what manner the said
John Hall< no role > came to his Death say upon their Oath that the said John Hall< no role > not being of sound mind
memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted on the seventeenth day of March in the year
in the year aforesaid at the parish and Ward aforesaid One end of a certain price of Cord of no value unto and
about a certain Iron Staple fixed in a certain Beam in the Cicling of a certain Coal Shed belonging to the dwelling
house of the said John Hall there situate and the other end of the said peice of Cord round and about his
own neck did then and there fix tie and fasten by means whereof he the said John Hall< no role > did then
and there hang strangle and suffocate himself by means of which said hanging strangling and suffocation
he the said John Hall< no role > did then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath afsd do say that
the said John Hall< no role > not being of sound mind memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted
did hang and kill himself In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Robert Standidge< no role > This name instance is in set 4620.
the foreman of the said Jurors on 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.

Robert Standidge< no role > This name instance is in set 4620. [mark] for man




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