City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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1st January 1790 - 31st December 1790

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Image 34 of 77819th January 1790


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 Martin in the Fields
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Nineteenth day of January in the Thirtieth
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 Elizabeth Jackson< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Robert Arrowsmith< no role > , James Goff< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. , Edward Atkinson< no role > , John
Kemp
< no role > , James Moreham< no role > , Robert Plaxton< no role > , William Sheldon< no role > , Alexander
Saunder
< no role > , George Maddock< no role > , Thomas Marriott< no role > , John Morgan< no role >
John Flinn< no role > , Samuel Goldsmith< no role > , Robert Frampton< no role > and
David Sidney< 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 Elizabeth Jackson< no role > came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say That the said Elizabeth Jackson< no role > on the
Eighteenth day of January in the Year aforesaid, between the Hours of one
and Two in the Morning, being at Black Lion Stairs in the said Parish
of Saint Martin in the Fields within the Liberty and County aforesaid,
It so happened, that the said Elizabeth Jackson< no role > Accidentally Casually and
by misfortune did fall off and from the Causeway there, into the River Thomas
and in the Water thereof was then and there suffocated and Drowned,
of which said suffocation and Drowning she the said Elizabeth Jackson< no role >
then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath
aforesaid do say, that the said Elizabeth Jackson< 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 Robert arrowsmith< 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 > Coroner .
Robt. Arrowsmith< no role > Foreman




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