City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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3rd January 1798 - 31st December 1798

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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 House of Sarah Giles< no role > known by the Name of the White Bear in Park Street
Grosvenor Square in the Parish of Saint George Hanover Square within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church
of St. Peter, Westminster , in the County of Middlesex , the twelfth day of April 1798
in the Thirty eighth 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 William Sexty< no role > then and there
lying dead, upon the Oath of the several Jurors whose Names are here under written, and
Seals affixed, 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 William Sexty< no role > came to his Death, do upon
their Oath say, that the said William Sexty not being of sound Mind
Memory and Understanding, but lunatic and Ditracted, on the tenth
day of April in the Yeat aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty
aforesaid, one End of a certain Halter or Cord unto the Tester of the Bed
in the Apartment of the said William Sexty over a Coach House in
King Street Mews, in or neat Park Street Grosvenor Square , and the other
End of the said Halton or Cord, about his own Neck, did fix, tye
and fasten, and therewith, and by Means thereof, did then and there
hang, suffocate, and strangle himself; of which said Hanging
suffocation and Strangling, he the said William Sixty then
and there instantly died. And so the Jurors aforesaid,
upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said William
Sexty, not being of sound Mind, Memory and Understanding,
but lunatic and distracted, in Manner and by the Means
aforesaid, did kill himself.

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Jurors, have to this Inqusition
set their Hands and Seals the Day, Year, and Place first above written.

Anthy Gell< no role >
Coroner }
Geo: Sackwell< no role >
Anty: Levitt< no role >
James P. Smart< no role >
Wm. Skinner< no role > [mark]
Robert Banks< no role >

Thos Cooper< no role >
Wm. Fatham< no role >
Charles Stanford< no role >
Alexd. Redford< no role >
Henry Johnson< no role >
Richd Amitage< no role >

Elles Anwyl< no role >
W. Watson




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