City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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Image 17 of 7919th February 1761


Westminster City and Liberty in
the County of Middlesex

the
Liberty of Westminster within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster the Third day
of March in the First 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 and so forth, and in the Year of our Lord One Thousand seven hundred and sixty one 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 Anna Millecent
King
< no role > then and there lying Dead by the Oaths of Henry Jeffray< no role > Constantine Tolings< no role > , Samuel Dicher< no role > , Philips Cole< no role > , Robert Fisher< no role > , George
Finley
< no role > , John Senion< no role > ,John Cuttell< no role > , George Vickhart< no role > , Soloman Maxey< no role > , Benjamin Brown< no role > , Richard Berry< no role > , Anthony Parnham< no role > , Robert
Nisbett
< no role > Ayme Vedean< no role > , John Boog< no role > , and John Albin< 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 Anna Millecent King came to her
Death say upon their Oaths That Theodore Gerdall< no role > late of the Parish aforesaid in the Liberty and County aforesaid Laborer not
having the fear of God before his Eyes, but moved and seduced by the Instigation of the Devil on the Nineteenth day of February
in the year aforesaid, with Force and Arms at the Parish aforesaid in the Liberty and County aforesaid in and upon the said
Anna Millecent King in the Peace of God and of our said Lord the King, then and there being Feloniously, Wilfully, and of his
Malice forethought did make an Assault, and that he the said Theodore Gerdalle< no role > with a certain knife of the Value of one Penny
which he the said Theodore Gerdalle then and there had and held in his right hand the said Anna Millecent King in and upon
the Throat of her the said Anna Millecent King then and there Feloniously Voluntarily and of his Malice forethought did
strike and stab giving to the said Anna Millecent King then and there with the Knife aforesaid in and upon the Throat of,
her the said Anna Millecent [..] one or more Mortal Wound or Wounds of which said Mortal Wound or Wounds the said
Anna Millecent [..]
King in divers peices. And so the said Jurors upon their Oaths aforesaid do say that the said Theodore Gerdalle her the said
Anna Millecent King, in manner and by the means aforesaid feloniously wilfully, and of his Malice forethought did Kill,
and Murder against the Peace of our said Lord the King his Crown and Dignity. In Witness whereof as well the said
Coroner as the Foreman of the Jurors aforesaid have to this Inquisition set their hands and Seals the day Year, and at the
place abovementioned.

Jno. Feary< no role > Coroner

Henry Jaffray< no role > Foreman




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