City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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3rd January 1791 - 30th December 1791

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An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is
to say at the parish of Saint Dunstan in the West in the Ward of Farringdon without
in London aforesaid on the twenty first day of April in the thirty first 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 Shelton< no role > Gentleman
Coroner of our said Lord the King for the City of London and Borough of Southwark on
view of the Body of Thomas Smith< no role > Mendham an infant of about the age of two
Years now here lying dead by the Oath of Robert Anderson< no role > John Forster< no role > Nathaniel
Proctor Thomas< no role > Markes Charles John Downs< no role > Richard Pugh< no role > John Smith< no role > Thomas
Helloman John Drew< no role > Samuel Davis< no role > Tristram Blades< no role > Charles Dillegall George Owles
James Batewin Thomas Udull good and lawful Men of the City of London aforesaid
who being now here duly Chosen sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord the
King when how and in what manner the said Thomas Smith< no role > Mendham came to
his death say upon their Oath that the said Thomas Smith< no role > Mendham on the
twenty ninth day of March in the Year aforesaid being in a certain one pair of Stairs
room in the dwelling house of Thomas Mendham< no role > there situate and being near to
the Window of the said room It so happened that the said Thomas Smith< no role >
Mendham accidentally casually and by misfortune fell from and out of the said
Window into the Street and to [..] upon and against the stone pavement there by means whereof
he the said Thomas Smith< no role > Mendham did the and there receive one Mortal Wound
and Conlusion in and upon the Back part of the head of him the said Thomas
Hutch Mendham< no role > of which said mortal wound and conlusion for the deced
Thomas Smith< no role > Mendham from then said twenty ninth day of March in the Year
aforesaid until the eleventh day of April in the same Year at the parish and Ward
aforesaid in London aforesaid did languishing did live On which said
eleventh day of April in the Year aforesaid at the parish and ward aforesaid at
London aforesaid she said Thomas Smith< no role > Mendham of the said Mortal wound and
conlusion did die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon sheer oath aforesaid do say that the
said Thomas Smith< no role > Mendham in manner and by the means aforesaid casually
and by misfortune was Accidentally killed In Witness whereof as well the said
Coroner as Robert Anderson< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors on 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 abovewritten.

Erd.

Robert Anderson< no role > [mark] Foreman




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