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 the Parish of
Allhallows the Great in the Ward of Dowgale in London aforesaid on the Fifteenth day of
August in the thirty first Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord< no role > George the Third by the
Space 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 Abigal Crips< no role > now he lying dead by the Oath of
Aaron Baker< no role > James Carpenter< no role > Evan Jones< no role > James Barker< no role > Richard Hunt< no role > William Snewin< no role >
Edward Emes Owen Jones< no role > William Pugh< no role > Thyar Pitt Thomas Davis< no role > Henry Dady and
Thomas Savill< no role > good and lawful men of the Parish and Ward 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 Abigal Crips< no role > came to her Death say upon their Oath that the said Abigal Crips< no role >
not being of sound mind Memory and understanding but Lunatic and distracted on the Thirteenth
day of August in the Year aforesaid being in a certain Room in the upper Story of a certain House there
situate and being near unto the Window there. It so happened that the said a legal Crips accedintally
Casually and by misfortune fell from and out of the said Window into a certain Street and Lane
there situate called Bush Lane and so and against the stone Pavement there by means where of
she the said abigal Crips< no role > did then and there receive divers mortal Wounds and houses in and
upon the Head Back Sides Arms Legs and other parts of the Body of her said abigal Crips< no role >
of which said mortal wounds and bruises she the said abigal Crips< no role > did then and there die
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said Abigal Crips< no role > not
being of sound mind memory and under standing but Lunatic and Distracted in manner
and by the means aforesaid casually and by misfortune was accidentally killed In
Witnesses whereof as well the said Corner as the said Aaron Baker< no role > the 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 First above written

Aaron Baker [mark] Foreman




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