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

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Image 726 of 85819th September 1799


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Thos. Shelton< no role >
Corr. [mark]


An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London (that is to say)
at the parish of Saint Bartholomew the less in the ward of Farringdon without in London aforesaid
on the nineteenth day of September in the thirty ninth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord< no role >
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 John Mollett< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of James Coleman< no role > William Caslon< no role >
John Tatums< no role > Matthew Dodd< no role > Elijah Gillard< no role > William Gibson< no role > Richard Templeman< no role > Thomas
Griffith Andrew< no role > Clark John Tagg< no role > John Nash< no role > Henry Somes< no role > John Forster< no role > Joseph
Spencer William Wilson< no role > and Thomas Wilson< 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 Mollett< no role > came to his
death say upon their oath that the said John Mollett< no role > an infant on the sixteenth day of
September in the year aforesaid being near the window of a certain two pair of stairs room
in the dwelling house ofTagg situate in the parish of Saint Bridget otherwise
Bride in the ward aforesaid in London aforesaid It so happened that the said John Mollett< no role >
accidentally casually and by misfortune fell from and out of the said Window down to and upon
the stone pavement there by means whereof the said John Mollett< no role > did then and there receive
one mortal fracture of the thigh and also one mortal fracture of the Scull of the said John
Mollett of which said mortal fractures the said John Mollett< no role > from the said Sixteenth day of
September in the year aforesaid until the Seventeenth day of the Same month of September in the
same year as well at the said parish of Saint Bridget otherwise Bride as also at the before
mentioned parish of Saint Bartholomew the less in the Ward aforesaid in London aforesaid
did languish and languishing did live and on the same day and year last aforesaid at
the parish last aforesaid in the Ward aforesaid in London aforesaid the said John Mollett< no role > of
the said mortal fractures did die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say
that the said John Mollett< 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 James Coleman< 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.

James Coleman< no role > [mark]




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