City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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5th January 1792 - 31st December 1792

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An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the Parish of Saint
Walthew Friday Street in the Ward of Farringdon within in London aforesaid on the Seventh day of July in
the thirty second 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
Lawrence Connely< no role > now here lying dead by the Oath of Jonathan Scott< no role > , William Mountain< no role > , James Raymond< no role > ,
John Bedman< no role > , John Howorth< no role > , William Stratton< no role > , John Penn< no role > , Thomas Thompson< no role > , Thomas Breach, James
Mudie, George Savage< no role > , William Osborn< no role > , and Richard Hanson< 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 Lawrence Connelly< no role > came to his death say upon
their Oath that the said Lawrence Connelly< no role > on the Sixth day of July in the Year aforesaid being
employed in the building a certain House in the Parish and ward aforesaid and being on a Certain
Ladder then and there placed at the inside of the said House accidentally Casually and by misfortune
full from and off the said Ladder into the Cellar of the said House by means whereof he the said
Lawrence Connely< no role > did then and there receive on Mortal Wound and bruise in and upon the
back part of the head of him the said Lawrence Connely of which said Mortal Wound and bruise
he the said Lawrence Connely did then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath
aforesaid do say that the said Lawrence Connely in manner and by the means aforesaid
casually and by misfortune was accidentally killed In Witness whereof as well the said
Coroner as the said Jonathan Scott< 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

John Scott< no role > [mark] Foreman




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