City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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30th January 1797 - 28th December 1797

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Image 351 of 60731st July 1797


London


Thomas Shelton< no role >
Corr.


An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London (that is to say) at the parish of
Saint Bridget otherwise Brides in the Ward of Farringdon without in London aforesaid on the thirty first day of July in
the thirty seventh 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 Peter Degoyer< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of
Francis Dukes Thomas Reeves< no role > Charles Whittingham William Wilkins< no role > Gerrard Backhouse Samuel
Gurrier John Lovejoy< no role > John Figgins< no role > Abraham Skyner< no role > William Woollatt< no role > John Cooper< no role > George Carrathers< no role > Major Taylor
William Gough< no role > and Thomas Higgins< 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 Peter Degoyer< no role >
came to his death say upon their oath that the said Peter Degoyer< no role > on the twenty ninth day of July in the year aforesaid
at the parish and Ward aforesaid in London aforesaid threw a quantity of water from and out of a pail which he the said
Peter Degoyer< no role > then and there had and held in both his hand at against and upon a certain woman whose name to the
Jurors aforesaid is unknown And that the said woman whose name to the Jurors aforesaid is unknown did then and there
take hold of the said Bail and attempt to wrest it from and out of the hands of him the said Peter Degoyer< no role >
And that the said woman whose name to the Jurors aforesaid is unknown did presently loose her hold
of the said pail and that the said Peter Degoyer< no role > being then and there violently pulling the said pail did himself
force it to and against his own Stomach by means whereof the said Peter Degoyer< no role > did then and there
accidentally casually and by misfortune receive one mortal bruise in the Stomach of him the said Peter Degoyer< no role > of
which said mortal bruise he the said Peter Degoyer< no role > did then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon
their oath aforesaid do say that the said Peter Degoyer< no role > in manner and by the means aforesaid accidentally casually
and by misfortune came to his death and not otherwise In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said
Jurors to this Inquisition have hereunto set their hands and seals the day year and place first above written.

Francis Dukes< no role > [mark]
Thos Reeves< no role > [mark]
Chas Whittingham< no role > [mark]
William Witkin< no role > [mark]

Ger [..] Barkhouse< no role > [mark]
Samuel Gueriel< no role > [mark]
John Lovejoy< no role > [mark]
John Figgins< no role > [mark]

Abraham Skynner< no role > [mark]
J Wortlatt [mark]
Jno Cooper< no role > [mark]
George Canuthen< no role > [mark]

Mayr. Taylor< no role > [mark]
Wm. Gough< no role > [mark]
Thos Higgins< no role > [mark]




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