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

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Image 401 of 68613th July 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 Clement Danes
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter
Westminster in the County of Middlesex the Fifteenth 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 Burford< no role > an Infant then and there lying
dead upon the Oath of Benjamin Brassett< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. , John Clunn< no role > , Giles Savage< no role > , Job Blackburn< no role > , William
Danson
< no role > This name instance is in set 2075. , Robert Hepburn< no role > , William Warberton< no role > , Joseph Comport< no role > , John Whitfield< no role > , James
Lister
< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. , John Wassell< no role > , Thomas Wells< no role > , Nathaniel Field< no role > , and Benjamin Poole< 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 Burford Came to herDeath, do upon their Oath say. That the
said Elizabeth Burford< no role > an Infant on the Fourteenth day of July in the Year aforesaid
being in the Arms of Elizabeth Burford her Mother, who was walking along Steel Street in the
Parish of St. Dunstan in the West within the City of London , It so happened that a price of Wood,
Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune did then and there fall down upon and against the
leftside of the Head of the said Elizabeth Burford the Infant, by Reason whereof she the said
Elizabeth Burford the Infant did then and there Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune receive
one mortal Bruise in and upon the left side of her Head, of which said mortal Bruise she the said
Elizabeth Burford< no role > languished about two Years at the said Parish of St. Clement Danes within the
Liberty and County aforesaid and then and there died of the mortal Bruise aforesaid
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Elizabeth Burford
Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune, in Manner and by the Means aforesaid, came to her Death
and not otherwise. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Benjamin Brassert
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

Benj Brassert< no role > Foreman




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