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

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Image 125 of 78210th March 1794


City and Liberty
of Westminster ,
in the County of
Middlesex to wit.


An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King, at the Worklonse of the parish of St. Margaret in Dear Street
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapeter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster
in the County of Middlesex , the tenth day of March 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 Thomas Brickstock< 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 Thomas Brickstock came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the Said Thomas Bricks toch on the eight day
of March in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty aforesaid
To Wit in Abingdon Street as le was canying a certain piece of Timber It
So happened, that accidentally, casually and by Misfortune be the said Thomas
Brickstock slipped down and that the said piece of Timber fell upon him by meant whereof
he the said Thomas Brickstock acceined a Mortal Wound of which said
Mortal Wound he the said Thomas Brickstock then and there
instantly died and so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid
do say that the said Thomas Brickstock in Manner and by the
Meanns aforesaid accidentally casually and by his for true came
to his Death and not otherwise that the said Price of Timter was the
Cause of his Death & his own perpaty and is of the Value of Six pence
In Witness where of as well the said boomer in the said Jurors
hane to this Inquisition set their hands & Seal the day & year above written

Anthy gell< no role >
Coroner }
John Prangnell< no role >
Foreman
Walter Clark< no role >
Thomas Warding< no role >
Wm Steward< no role >
Moses Burtone< no role >

Davd Eastwood< no role >
Robert Crisp< no role >
William Burr< no role >
Wm Iles< no role >
John Tayler< no role >
Cuthbs Hilton< no role >

Thomas Scott< no role >
Wm. Cattliff< no role >




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