City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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2nd January 1767 - 30th December 1767

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Image 579 of 72310th October 1767


City and Liberty
of Westminster
in the County of
Middlesex }
to Wit

An Inquitition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King, at the Parish of St. Margaret in the City of Westminster
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Tenth day of October in the Seventh 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 sorth, 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
Agnes Harrison< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of William
Turner
< no role > , Joseph Mutlow< no role > , John Goldsmith< no role > , John Mitchell< no role > , Henry
Chamberlayne
< no role > , Henry Fryday< no role > , James Donn< no role > , John Burgess< no role > , Leonard
Clow
< no role > , John Vernick< no role > , William Vincent< no role > , James Legg< no role > , and Major
Lyme
< no role > good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
chosen, who being then and there duly sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the
King, when how, and by that what Means the said Agnes Harrison came to
her Death do upon their Oath say, That the said agnes Harrison on the Thireenth Day
of September in the Year aforesaid being upon the Stairs in her dweling House
Situate and being in the Horse Ferry Road in the Parish of St. John the
Evangelist within the City Liberty and County aforesaid , and that Sarah
Smith
< no role > a Lodger in the Said House being then and there standing at the top
of the said Stairs, with a large Earthen Pitcher in her hand, It so happened
that the said Pitcher then and there slipped out of the Hand of the said Sarah
Smith
< no role > , upon and against the Head of her the said Agne's Harrison, by Means
whereof she the said Agnes Harrison< no role > did then and there casually by misfortune
and against the will of her the said Sarah Smith< no role > , receives one Mortal
wound in and upon the Forehead, over the right Eye of her the said Agnes Harrison
of which said mortal wound she the said Agnes Harrison from the said Thirteenth
day of September in the Year aforesaid, until the Eighth day of October in the same Year
at the said Parish of St. John the Evangelist , and also at the Westminster Hospital
Situate and being in the said Parish of St. Margaret within the City Liberty, and
County aforesaid did languish and Languishing did live, on Which said Eight day
of October in the Year aforesaid she the said Agnes Harrison< no role > at the Hospital
aforesaid of the Mortal Wound aforesaid, did die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon
Their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Agnes Harrison in Manner and by the Means
aforesaid Casually by Misfortune and against the Will of the said Sarah Smith< no role > came
to her Death and not otherwise In Witness where of as well the said Coronor as
the said William Turner< 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 > Coronor
Wm TurnerForeman




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