City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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2nd January 1793 - 28th December 1793

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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 Sepulchre without Bishopsgate in the Ward of Bishopsgate without in London
aforesaid on the thirteenth day of August in the thirty third 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 of the City of London and Borough
of Southwark on view of the Body of Ann White< no role > an infant now here lying dead by the Oath of
Charles Sadler< no role > John Knight< no role > John King< no role > John Compton< no role > John Copeland< no role > Thomas Windsor< no role > John Palmer< no role >
Peter Richardson< no role > Thomas Metcalfe< no role > Thomas Eaton< no role > Joseph Nightingale< no role > John Grigg< no role > James Dawson< no role > William
Furnace John Davis< no role > and Thomas Blissett< no role > good and lawful men of the City of London 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 White< no role > came to her death say upon their Oath that the said Ann White< no role > on the ninth day of
August in the year aforesaid being in a certain privy in the yard belonging to the dwelling house of
one Matthew Hubbard< no role > there situate It so happened that the said Ann White< no role > accidentally casually &
by misfortune fell through the Cole in the seat of the said privy into and amongst the filth
of the said privy and in and with the said Dirt and filth was then and there suffocated & droaked
of which said choaking and suffocation the said Ann White< no role > did then and there die And so the
Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said Ann White< no role > in manner & by the means
aforesaid casually and by misfortune was accidentally killed In Witness whereof as well the
said Coroner as the said Charles Sadler< 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.

Chas Sadler [mark] Foreman




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