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

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City of 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 James
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the fifth day of August in the twenty 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 Thomas
Prickard
< no role > , Gentleman, Coroner of our said Lord the king for the said City and Liberty, on
View of the Body of Catherine Salmon< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Thomas Price< no role > , Andrew Neill, Morgan Williams< no role > , Josiah
Daily
< no role > , William Boxall< no role > , William Brown< no role > , Charles Richard< no role > , John
Pollock
< no role > , Rees Morgan< no role > , Thomas Norton< no role > , Paul Greller< no role > , John Wallis< no role >
Richard Smith< no role > , David Evans< no role > , William Careless< no role > , William Sweet< no role >
and John Cornish< 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 Catherine Salmon< no role > came to
her Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Catherine Salmon< no role > an
Infant of the Age of one Year and upwards on the fourth day of
August in the Year aforesaid, being upon a Working board or
Table at one of the Widows in the Lodging Room or Appartment
of Thomas Moore< no role > a Taylor in the Dwelling House of Mary
Debourn
< no role > situate and being in Leicester Street in the said Parish
of Saint James within the Liberty and County aforesaid, and
the Sash of the said Window being up It so happened that the
said Catherine Salmon< no role > the Infant Accidentally Casually and
by Misfortune fell out of and thro.' the said Window at the Height
of two stories upon the stone Pavement in the said street and thereby
then and there received a mortal Concussion in the brain, of
which said mortal Concussion she the said Catherine Salmon< no role >
then and there instantly died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon
their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Catherine Salmon< no role > in
manner and by the means aforesaid, Accidentally Casually and
by Misfortune came to her Death, and not otherwise. In Witness
whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said Thomas Price< 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 abovementioned.

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner

Thos. Price< no role > [mark] Foreman




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