City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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14th February 1760 - 31st December 1760

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Westminster City and Liberty
in the County of Middlesex }
to wit

An Inquisition Indented and taken at the Parish of St. Martin in the feilds
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter at Westminster the
Twenty ninth day of March in the thirty third Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George
the second by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith
and so forth and in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty Before John
Feary
< no role > Coroner for our Sovereign Lord the King for the City and Liberty of Westminster
aforesaid Upon a Veiw of the Body of James Nugent< no role > then and there lying Dead by the Oaths
of Joseph Winter< no role > Lawrence Quin< no role > , Edmond Dunn< no role > , Robert Mackaw< no role > , John Burn< no role > , Abel Morwen< no role > , Martin
Smith
< no role > , Henry Shackleton< no role > , Thomas Dunn< no role > , Thomas Bayley< no role > , John Morris< no role > , James Flanderkin< no role > Thomas
Whitefoot
< no role > , Edward Martin< no role > , George Scott< no role > , Thomas Salmon< no role > , William Machoone< no role > , and James Burton< no role >
Good and Lawfull Men of the said
City and Liberty who being Sworn and charged to Inquire for our Sovereign Lord the King how when
where and in what manner the said James Nugent< no role > came to his Death say upon their Oaths That
on Friday the 28th, day of this Instant March the said James Nugent< no role > being at the House of Samuel Moxay< no role >
the Sign of the Horse and Groom in Hedge Lane in the Parish Liberty and County aforesaid being the House
in which he lodged, and the said James Nugent< no role > being disordered by Liquor and going up the stairs
of the said House which load to his lodging room alone and by himself accidentally slipt and fell
from the said Stairs by which slipping and falling he was greatly bruised and hurt of which
bruises and hurt he Lanquished for the space of Eleven hours of the same Day, and then Died. And
so the said Jurors upon their Oaths aforesaid do say and find that the said James Nugent< no role > the day
and Year aforesaid in the Liberty and County aforesaid in manner and form aforesaid came to his Death
and not otherwise. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the Forenoon of the Jurors
aforesaid have to this Inquisition put their hands and Seals the day Year and at the place abovesaid

Jno. Feary< no role > Coroner

Joseph Winter< no role > Foreman




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