City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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5th January 1788 - 29th December 1788

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Image 268 of 80528th April 1788


City & Liberty
of Westmr . in the
County of Midsex }


Informations taken this twenty sixth
day of April 1788 at the Parish of
St. George Hanover Square within the
Liberty of Westminster in the County
of Midsex upon an Inquisition
touching the death of George Young< no role >
lying dead in the said Parish
Liberty and County

Aualia Atfield< no role > Seventh the Right Honoble
Lord Amherst in the Capacity of Kitchen Maid
on her Oath saith That George Young< no role > the Deced
came to live with Lord A [..] cherst about last
Mutras as Under Butler, Says that about
a Quarter, before Twelve o'Clock this forenoon
Dept. was in the Kitchen with her Fellow Servt.
had fanden down, upon which Dept. ran into
the Hall, and seeing the Door of necessary
there a little way aften, and a are at Quantity
of Smook coming out of it Dept. looked into
the Necessary and saw the Deced sitting
upon the Seat, there, incluining to the Right
side and his Head against the Wall
Says that he bled from the Head which
ran down his Cloaths to the Floor, That she
thereupon called some of her Fellow Servant
who likewise saw the Deced, and Dept. then
says a Wound on the Fore Part of Deced's
Head made by a Pistol Ball as Dept. believes
That she saw the Pistol lying on the Floor on
the Deceds left side in the nessary with
which the Wound was given and Dept.
believes that the Deced Discharged the
Pistol himself, and Says that life Deced deed
immediately of the wound above mentioned
Says that the deced was naturally of a cheart
Dis [..] chon but for about a fortnight last [..]
was very Melanchely and low Spirited, Says
very little and appeared different from who
he used to be.

Ameba Atfield< no role >
[mark]
her Mark




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