City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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3rd January 1766 - 29th December 1766

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Image 246 of 68615th April 1766


City and Liberty of Westminster
in the County of Middlesex }


to Wit

An Inquisition Indented taken for Our Sovereign
Lord the King at the Parish of Saint Jameswithin the Liberty of the Dean
and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster in the County of Middlesex
the fifteenth day of April in the Sixth 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 before Thomas Prickard< no role > Gentleman Coroner of our said Lord
the King for the said City and Liberty on View of the Body of John Whitehead< no role > an Infant
then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Thomas Jones< no role > , Alexander Frazer< no role > , John Elliot< no role > , David Reece< no role > , Richard
White
< no role > , Charles Summers< no role > , Jonathan Bruister< no role > , Thomas Tovie< no role > , Richard Jones< no role > , Charles Leafe< no role > , George Davie< no role > , Philip
Burkinyoung
< no role > , Richard Eaton< no role > Henry Hoitland< no role > & Thomas Jenkins< no role > , good and lawfull Men of the said Liberty
duly chosen who being then and there duly Sworn and charged to inquire for our said
Lord the King, when, how, and by what Means the said John Whitehead< no role >
came to his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said John White< no role > head the Infant, on the
Thirteenth day of April in the Year aforesaid, being in the dwelling House of Henry Jackson< no role >
situate in a certain Court called Kemp's Court in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and
County aforesaid, and then and there standing upon a Chair close to one of the Windows in
the fore room on the First. Floor in the said House, and the lower Sash of the said Window having
been put up, It so happened that the said John Whitehead< no role > did then and there Accidentally,
Causally and by Misfortune fall out of and through the said Window upon the Stone Pavement
in Kemp's Court aforesaid, By Means whereof he the said John Whitehead< no role > did then and there
Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune receive one mortal Fracture in and upon the left side
of the Head of him the said John Whitehead< no role > , of which said mortal Fracture he the said John
Whitehead
< no role > languished about two hours at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid
and thereof then and there did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid
do say, that the said John Whitehead< 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 Thomas Jones< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors on the behalf
of himself and the rest of his said Fellows, in their presence have to this Inquisition
set their Hands and Seals, the Day Year and Place first abovewritten

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner .

Thomas Jones< no role > Foreman




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