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

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Image 453 of 8615th March 1792


London


T. Shelton
Corr.


An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that
is to say as the parish of Saint Bartholomew the Great in the ward of Farringdon without
in London aforesaid on the Fifth day of March in the thirty second year of the reign
of our Sovereign Low George the third by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and
Ireland King defender of the Faith and 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 Winifred Morris< no role > now here lying dead by the Oath of John Sherwood< no role >
George Dover< no role > , John Mears< no role > , Thomas Trueman< no role > William Meynell< no role > John Dighton< no role > John
Green
< no role > , John Evans< no role > , William Maiden< no role > , Michael Candergast< no role > , Thomas Short< no role > William
Holliday,
< no role > John Jones< no role > , William Fenton< no role > , and Stephen Bethery< no role > , 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 Winifred Morris< no role >
came to his death say upon their Oath that the said Winifred Morris< no role > on the thirty eighth
day of February being in a certain room in the dwelling house of Rice Morris< no role > [..] situate
in the parish of Saint Sepulchre in the ward of Farringdon without in London aforesaid
and being near the Fere place in the said room wherein there was then a Fire it so happened
that the Cloaths and wearing apparel of the said Richard Hunt< no role > Winifred Morris< no role > did then
and there accidentally casually [..] and by misfortune Catchford and were continued
and the said Winifred Morris< no role > with the Flames arsing from the said fire was Mortally burned
of which said burning she the said Winifred Morris< no role > as well at the said parish of Saint
Sepulchre in the ward of Farringdon without as at the said parish of Saint Bartholomew
the Great did languish and languish and languishing die live until the said fourth
day of March when the said Winifred Morris< no role > in the year aforesaid at the aforesaid
parish of Saint Sepulchre in the ward of Farringdon without in London aforesaid of
the said mortal burning did die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say
that the said Winifred Morris< no role > in manner and by the means aforesaid accidentally casually and
by misfortune was burned and Killed In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner
as the said John Sherwood< 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 at their hands and seals
the day year and place First above written.

John Sherwood< no role > [mark] Foreman




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