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 London
that is to say at the parish of SaintSepulBartholomew the less in the ward of Farringdon
without in London aforesaid on the sixth day of December in the thirtysecondThird year of the reign
of our Sovereign Lord< no role > George the third by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King
defender of the faith under forth before Thomas Shelton< no role > Gentleman Coroner forof our said Lord
the King for the City of London and Borough of Southwark on view of the Body of Ann
Sherwin now here lying dead by the Oath of William Castle< no role > , Daniel Neale< no role > , John Waters< no role > ,
James Fresfield< no role > , Thomas Massey< no role > , Joseph Maggs< no role > , William Harvey< no role > , Edmund Smith< no role > , Thomas
Corlin William Burnsted, John Brockholes< no role > , Thomas Ladds< no role > , John Harvey< no role > , John Jones< no role > ,
& William Morss< no role > , good and lawful men of the City of London aforeaid 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 Ann Sherwin< no role > came to her death say upon their Oath that the said John Sherwin< no role > on the
twenty third day of November in the year aforesaid being in a certain two pair of Stairs room
in the dwelling house of one George Wyatt< no role > there situate and being near to the window of the said
room It so happened that the said Ann Sherwin accidentally casually and by misfortune fall
from and out of the said window into the Street and to upon and against the stone pavement
there by means whereof she the said Ann Sherwin< no role > did then and there receive one mortal
wound and contusion in and upon the back part of the head of [..] the said Ann Sherwin< no role >
of which said mortal wound and contusion she the said Ann Sherwin< no role > from the said
[..] twenty third November in the year aforesaid until the fifth day of December in the
Same year at the parish and Ward aforesaid at London aforesaid did languish and langushing
did live On which said fifth day of December in the year aforesaid at the parish and Ward
aforesaid in London aforesaid the said Ann Sherewin< no role > of the said mortal wound and
contusion did dieAnd so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that
the said Ann Sherwin< no role > 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
Daniel Neale< no role > the Foreman of the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his fellows
have in their presence to this Inquisition set their hands and seals the day year and place
first above written

[mark] Daniel Neal< no role > Foreman




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