Middlesex Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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1st May 1781 - 31st December 1799

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Image 59 of 71219th November 1781


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An Inquisition indented taken for our sovereign Lord the King at the Parish of Saint Pancras
in the County of Middlesex , the Nineteenth Day of November in the 22nd. 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, Etc. before Edward Umfreville< no role > one of the Coroner s of Our said Lord the
KING, for the said County, on view of the body of James Laidle
then and there lying dead, upon the oath of Richard Goode< no role >
Joseph Gunshill< no role > William Lampard< no role > John Hastings< no role > Luke Bursey< no role > John Bedall< no role >
William Wagonham< no role > Francis Simpson< no role > Roger Slow< no role > John Willoughby< no role > Benjamin
Puckeridge John Haynes< no role > John Huggins< no role > William Harvey< no role > and Thomas Locker< no role >

good and lawful Men of the said County duly chosen as by Law required, and who being then and there duly sworn
and charged to enquire for Our said Lord the KING, when, how, and by what means the said James Laidle< no role >
came to h is Death, do upon their oath say, That the said James Laidle< no role >
on the Sixteenth Day of November in the Year aforesaid accidentally
casually and by Misfortune fell from a Scaffold in the Parish and County
aforesaid to and upon the Ground By Means whereof he the said James
Laidle then and there received One Mortal Fracture in and upon the
Scull of him the said James Laidle< no role > Of which said Mortal Fracture
he the said James Laidle then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said James Laidle< no role > in
manner and by the means aforesaid accidentally casually and by
Misfortune came to his Death

In Witness whereof, as well the said Coroner, as the said Richard Goode< 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 and Year first abovementioned

E: Umfreville [mark] Coronr.

Richd Goode [mark] Foreman




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