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

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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 Clement Danes
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St.
Peter Westminster in the County of Middlesex the Fifth day of July 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 Elizabeth Hayward< no role > an Infant then and there
lying dead, upon the Oath of John Wright< no role > , John Waite< no role > , Jeremiah Hemsworth< no role > , Thomas Harley< no role > ,
William Burlinson< no role > , William Deason< no role > , Matthias Fleming< no role > This name instance is in set 2034. , James Robinson< no role > , Andrew Burnet< no role > , Samuel
Mannerby
< no role > , John Williams< no role > , David Taylor< no role > , Henry Bennet< no role > , William Morris< no role > , Richard Bell< no role > and Edward Simons< 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 Elizabeth Hayward< no role > Came to her Death, do upon their Oath
Say. That the said Elizabeth Hayward< no role > an Infant, to wit, of the Age of fifteen Months,
on the fourth day of July in the Year aforesaid being in the Lodging Room or Apartment of William
Hayward
< no role > her Father, on the Second Floor, in the Dwelling House of David Taylor< no role > situate in Vere Street
in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, And the said Elizabeth Hayward< no role > then
and there standing on the Seat of one of the Windows in the said Room, and the lower Sash of the said
Window having been put up, It so happened that Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune the said
Elizabeth Hayward< no role > did then and there fall out of and through the said Window into the said Street,
by Means of which said fall she the said Elizabeth Hayward< no role > then and there received a violent Concussion
upon the Brain of which said violent Concussion she the said Elizabeth Hayward< no role > from the said fourth
day of July in the Year aforesaid, until the fifth day of the same Month, at the Parish Liberty and County
aforesaid, did languish and languishing did live, on which said fifth day of July in the Year aforesaid, she
the said Elizabeth Hayward< no role > at the Parish Liberty and County aforesaid of the Concussion aforesaid, did Die.
And so the Jurors aforesaid, upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said Elizabeth Hayward< no role > in Manner
and by the Means aforesaid Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune came to her Death and not
otherwise. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said John Wright< 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 above written

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

John Wright< no role > Foreman




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