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

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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 Martin in the Fields
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter , Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Twentieth day of May 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 Robert Jurquet< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Francis Barrow< no role > , Joseph Sharp< no role > , Daniel Cameron< no role > , William
Collins
< no role > , Robert Hinchsman< no role > , John Wilson< no role > , Henry King< no role > , Isaac Farlow< no role > ,
William Pann< no role > , William Underwood< no role > , Thomas Donaldson< no role > , Adam
Walker
< no role > , Samuel Broadban< no role > , and John Green< 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 Robert Jurquet< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Robert Jurquet< no role > not being of
sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatic and distracted on
the said Twentieth Day of May in the Year aforesaid at the Parish aforesaid within
the Liberty and County aforesaid in the Shop of him the said Robert Jurquet< no role >
there situate with a certain Razor made of Iron and Steel, which he the
said Robert Jurquet< no role > then and there had and held in his Right Hand, the
Throat or Gullet of him the said Robert Jurquet< no role > , did then and there Strike
stabbard Penetrate, thereby then and there giving unto himself with
the Razor aforesaid in and upon the Throat or Gullet of him the
said Robert Jurquet< no role > one Mortal Wound of the Length of three Inches,
and of the Depth of One Inch, of which said Mortal Wound,
he the said Robert Jurquet< no role > then and there instantly died.
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid, do say,
that the said Robert Jurquet< no role > in manner and by the Means
aforesaid not being of sound Mind, Memory, and Understanding,
but lunatic and distracted did kill himself. In Witness whereof
as well the said Coroner, as the said Francis Barron< no role > Foreman of the
said Jurors, on the Behalf of himself and the rest of his said Fellows,
In their Presence have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals
the Day, Year and Place abovementioned.

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

Frans. Barren< no role > Foreman




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