City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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9th January 1794 - 27th December 1794

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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 House of Mr. Neeve Sign of the Dog in St. James Market Parish of St. 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 July 1794 in the thirty fourth
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 Anthony
Gell
< no role > , Esq. Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on
View of the Body of Anne Spencer< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of the several Jurors whose Names are hereunder written
and Seals affixed
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 Anne Spencer< no role > came to
her Death, do upon their Oath say that the said Anne Spencer< no role > on the Evening of
Monday the third day of February in the year aforesaid at the
Parish of St.Martin in the Fields and in the Liberty aforesaid in endeavouring to gain Admission
into the Fritt at the Little Theake in the Hay Market It so
happened that accidentally casually and by Misfortune and by the Presence
of the Crowd of persons also endeavouring to gain Admission into the said [..]
She the said Anne Spencer< no role > was then and there suffocated in the
Passage leading to the said Pitt Of which said Suffocation
she the said Anne Spencer< no role > then and there instantly died
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say
that the said Anne Spencer< 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 Dunns have to this Inquisition set their
hands & Seals the day Year & Place above written.

Anthy Gell< no role >
Coroner }


James Blackledge< no role >
Foreman
2 Jos Milner< no role >
G Pati [..]
Jse. Clemmitt< no role >
G. Harrison

J Jones
James Holt< no role >
Isaac Morgan< no role >
William Mayne< no role >
Nicholas Wiltshire< no role >
Jon. Beak< no role >

Francis Smith< no role >




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