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

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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 Botolph without Aldersgate in the Ward of Aldersgate
without in London aforesaid on the Seventh 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 on view of the body of Isabella Lyons< no role > now here lying
dead by the oath of Joseph Betterton< no role > Joseph Goodey< no role > John Perowne Michael< no role > Patrick Thomas< no role >
Evans William Osborn< no role > William Harris< no role > John Jones< no role > Benjamin Slack< no role > William Bown Robert
Carrington and William Lamb< 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 Isabella Lyons< no role > came to her death say upon their oath
that the said Isabella Lyons< no role > on the seventh day of September in the year aforesaid
at the parish and ward aforesaid in London aforesaid being greatly intoxicated by
excessive drinking It so happened that the said Isabella Lyons< no role > on the Same day and
year aforesaid at London aforesaid in the parish and ward aforesaid by Such excessive
drinking and intoxication became mortally Sick and diseased in her body and thereof
did then and there die. In Witness where of as well the said Coroner as the Said
Joseph Betterton< 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.

Joseph Betterton< no role > [mark]




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