City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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11th January 1776 - 30th December 1776

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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 Margaret
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Third day of October in the Sixteenth 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 Cuttle< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of John
Ward
< no role > , William Gunn< no role > , William Gough< no role > , Thomas Bunts< no role > , William Doe< no role > ,
John Storr< no role > , James Williamson< no role > , Henry Savory< no role > , Thomas Langton< no role > , John
Noble
< no role > , James Loton< no role > , Robert Southby< no role > , John Brown< no role > , John Blatch< no role > This name instance is in set 18471847.
Henry Nelle< no role > and James Stuart< 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 Cuttle< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said John Cuttle< no role > not being of
sound Mind Memory and Understanding but lunatick & distracted
on the Second day of October in the Year aforesaid at the Parish
and in the County aforesaid, into the River Thomas there
did cast and throw himself, and in the Waters in the said
River was then and there Suffocated and Drowned, of which
said Suffocation and Drowning he the said John Cuttle< no role >
then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon
their Oath aforesaid do say that the said John Cuttle< 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 where of as
well the said Coroner, as the said John Ward< 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 > [mark] Coroner

John Ward< no role > [mark] Foreman




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