City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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3rd January 1763 - 30th December 1763

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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 Margaretin the City of Westminster , within the Liberty of the Dean and
Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster , in the County of Middlesex , the Sixth day
of May in the Third Year of the Regin 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 Peter Flannakin< no role > then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of Thomas Manlove< no role > Thomas
Lamb
< no role > , Thomas Walker< no role > , Christopher Lattimore< no role > William Porter< no role > , William Johnston< no role > , Nathaniel Skeat< no role > , John Stowers< no role > , George King< no role > Josiah Day< no role >
Wm. Bond< no role > , John Lowry< no role > , John Lawrence< no role > , James Osborne< no role > , William King< no role > , John Parbray< no role > Richard Murfin< no role > and Youell Honnor< no role > This name instance is in a workspace.
good and lawfull Men of the said Liberty duty chosen, who being then and there duly Sworn and Charged
to inquire for our said Lord the King, when, how, and by what Means the said Peter Flannakin
came to his Death, do upon their Oath say, That on the thirtieth day of April in the Year aforesaid, at the
Parish of St. George Hanover Square within the Liberty and County aforesaid, the said Peter Flannakin
being riding upon a certain Grey Mare, in a certain Road or Place called Pimlies, situate in the
Parish, Liberty, and County, last abovementioned, And the said Peter Flannakin then and there driving
and forcing the said Mare to go forwards with great Violence, and being Intoxicated and in Liquor,
It so happened that the said Peter Flannakin then and there Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune fell from
off the Back of the said Mare unto the Ground, whereby the said Peter Flannakin did then and there receive on
Mortal Wound on the fore part of the Head of him the said Peter Flannakin, of which said Mortal Wound he the said
Peter Flannakin at the Westminster Hospital in the said Parish of St. Margaret, within the City Liberty and County aforesaid
from the said thirtieth day of April in the Year aforesaid until the fifth day of May in the same Year did languish, and
languishing did live, on which said fifth day of May in the Year aforesaid, he the said Peter Flannakin at the Hospital aforesaid, of the
Mortal Wound aforesaid, died, And so the Jurors aforesaid, upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said Peter Flannakin in
Manner and by the Means aforesaid, Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune came to his Death, and not otherwise. In Witness whereof
as well the said Coroner as the said Thomas Manlove< no role > Foreman, on the behalf of himself and the rest of the Jurors, in their presence, have
to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals, the Day Year and Place first above written

Thos. Prickard< no role > Coroner

Thos. Manlove< no role > Foreman




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