City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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3rd January 1799 - 31st December 1799

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Thos. 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 Dunstan in the West in the Ward of Farringdon without in London
aforesaid on the Sixth day of September in the thirty ninth year of the reign of our Sovereign
Lord George the third King of Great Britain 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 in
view of the body of John Langh< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of Richard
Morley,
< no role > John White< no role > , Christopher Warwick< no role > , Robert Roberts< no role > , William Hughes< no role > , John
Blundell
< no role > , Jonathan Blundell< no role > , Mordemut Potter< no role > , Richard Hoole< no role > , William Bird< no role > ,
Robert Seager< no role > , Stephen Flindall< no role > , William Wheeler< no role > , John Tovey< no role > , James Gravill< no role > ,
William Crakell< no role > , and David Sprott< 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 John Langh< no role > came to his death
Say upon their oath that the said John Langh< no role > on the fourth day of September in the year
aforesaid being near the Window in the Second flight of Stairs in the dwelling house of
Moors there Situate It so happened that the said John Langh accidentally casually and by
misfortune fell from and out of the said Window into a certain yard belonging to the said
house and by means whereof the said John Langh< no role > did then and there receive Several mortal
fractures and bruises in and upon his head and divers parts of his body of which said mortal
fractures and bruises the said John Langh< no role > from the said fourth day of September in the
year aforesaid until the fifth day of the same month of September in the Same year
at the parish and Ward aforesaid in London aforesaid did languish and languishing did
live on which said fifth day of September in the year aforesaid at the parish and Ward aforesaid
in London aforesaid the Said John Langh< no role > of the said mortal fractures and bruises did die
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said John Langh< 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
Richard Morley< 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 abovewritten.

Rd: Morley< no role > [mark]




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