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 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 Ninth day of June 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 Adam Inngworth then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of
Thomas Honour< no role > , Edward Hancock< no role > , John
Courtney
< no role > , William Woods< no role > , William Warren< no role > , John
Cross
< no role > , John Disney< no role > , John Gould< no role > , Thomas Jones< no role > ,
James Skeet< no role > , William Chalman< no role > and John Milliner< 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 Adam Inngworth came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say ,
That the said Adam Inngworth,
(being a Person subject to Falling Fits,) on the Seventh day of
June in the Year aforesaid was standing by the side of the
River near the Fire Engine at Pimlies in the Parish aforesaid
within the Liberty and County aforesaid, It so happened
that the said Adam Inngworth was then and there suddehly
Seized with a Falling Fit, and by reason thereof then and there
Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune fell into the said
River and in the Waters thereof was then and there Suffocated
and Drowned, of which said Suffocation and Drowning he
the said Adam Inngworth then and there died. And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said
Adam Inngworth 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 Honour< 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 above written.

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner .
Thos: Honour [mark] Foreman




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