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 Inquisitition Indented taken for Our Sovereign Lord
the King at the Parish of St. George Hanover Square within the Dean and Chapter
of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster in the County of Middlesex , the Twenty-
seventh day of August 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 Mary Robinson< no role > an Infant then and there lying dead, upon the
Oath of Joseph Dell< no role > , Francis Bowers< no role > , William Lister< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. , John Hyat< no role > , John Thurlin< no role > , John Robinson< no role > , Isaac Tenn< no role > , Thomas
Davies
< no role > , William Slade< no role > , Charles Parker< no role > , William Hunter< no role > , Robert Gihon< no role > , Nathaniel Moore< no role > , William Hunter< no role > ,
Cornelius Harold< no role > , James Johnston< no role > and Andrew Marks< 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 Mary Robinson< no role > came to her Death, do upon their
Oath say, That the said Mary Robinson< no role > the Infant, on the Twenty sixth day of August
in the Year aforesaid, being at play in a certain Stable Yard or Mews situate and being
near unto Maddox Street , in the Parish aforesaid, within the Liberty and County aforesaid
It so happened that the said Mary Robinson< no role > , Accidentally, Casually and by Misfortune,
did then and there fall into a certain Horsepond, then and there being in the said Stable Yard
and in the Water in the said Horsepond, was then and there Suffocated and Drowned
of which said Suffocation and Drowning she the said Mary Robinson< no role > then and there died
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said Mary Robinson< 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 Joseph Dell< no role > , Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and
the rest of his 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

Joseph Dell< no role > Foreman




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