City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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1st January 1795 - 31st December 1795

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Image 171 of 63118th March 1795


London
Thomas Shelton< no role >
Corr.

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to say
at the parish of Saint Giles without Cripplegate in the Ward of Cripplegate without in London aforesaid on the
eighteenth day of March in the thirty 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 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 Britton< no role > now here lying dead
by the oath of John Mill< no role > John Perry< no role > Thomas King< no role > John Charlton< no role > John Scott< no role > John Humphreys< no role >
Zachariah Duncan< no role > William Parker< no role > Thomas Wright< no role > John Stevens< no role > William Law< no role > George Looseley< no role >
and John Newman< no role > good and lawful men of the City of London aforesaid 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 Britton< no role > came to his death say upon their oath that the said John
Britton on the fifteenth day of Mach on the year aforesaid being ascending a certain
Ladder to go up into a certain loft over a certain Coachhouse in the yard of one John King< no role >
situate in the parish and Ward aforesaid It so happened that the said John Britton< no role >
accidentally casually and by misfortune fell from and off the said Ladder down to and
upon the stone pavement there by means whereof the said John Britten did then and
receive one mortal bruise in and upon one of the Temples of him the said John Britton< no role >
and also one other mortal bruise on one side of the face of him the said John Britton< no role > of which
said mortal bruises he the said John Britton< no role > did then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said John Britton< no role > in manner and by the
means aforesaid accidentally casually and by misfortune same to his death and not
otherwise In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said John Mill< no role > 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 abovewritten.

John Mill< no role > [mark]




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