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

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An Inquisition [..] Lord the King [..]
Fields in the County of Middlesex , the seventh Day of March in the 22d. 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 Coroners of Our said Lord
KING, for the said County, on view of the body of Elizabeth Orders
then and there lying dead, upon the oath of Richard Day< no role >
William Jawley< no role > William Worsley< no role > Thomas Brockway< no role > Francis Pems< no role >
John Spendiff< no role > Valentine Newland< no role > William Bettesworth< no role > Alexander
Clack
< no role > Richard Bates< no role > and Thomas Patrick< 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 Elizabeth Ordery< no role >
came to h er Death, Do upon their Oath say, That The said Elizabeth
Ordery on the Fifth Day of March in the Year aforesaid being intoxicated
with strong Liquor and being in her own Room or Apartment situate in
[..] ers Lane in the Parish and County aforesaid It so happened That
she the said Elizabeth Ordery then and there accidentally casually and by
Misfortune fell upon the so Fire which was then burning in a Grate in the
said Room By Means whereof divers Parts of the Body of her the said
Elizabeth Ordery< no role > were then and there Mortally scorched and burnt of which
said Mortal Scorching and Burning she the said Elizabeth Ordery then
and there Died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do
Say That the said Elizabeth Ordery in Manner and by the Means aforesaid
accidentally casually and by Misfortune Came to her Death

In Witness whereof, as well as the said Coroner, as the said Richard Day< 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: Day [mark] Foreman




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