City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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4th January 1768 - 31st December 1768

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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 George Hanover Square within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of
the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster in the County of Middlesex , the Twenty second day of
February in the Eighth 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 Abraham Javelleaue< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of William Hunter< no role > Thomas Harforth< no role > ,
Benjamin Combes< no role > , John Dyer< no role > , James Draper< no role > , Robert Boutledge< no role > , Charles Logan< no role > , Guillaume Mitan< no role > , James
Pitts
< no role > , Thomas Southwell< no role > , George Bloaden< no role > , John Tindel< no role > , Francis Belwine< no role > , John Carrer< no role > , Charles Steward< no role > ,
Lawrence Nowland< no role > and Henry Allybon< no role > good and lawfull Mon 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 Abraham Javelleauecame to his Death doupon their Oath say, That
the said Abraham Javelleaue on the Twenty third day of January in the Year aforesaid being
Fighting with Thomas, whose Sir name is not known (commonly called by the name of Thomas
Finderbox
< no role > ) in a certain Stable Yard situate in Swallow Street in the Parish of St. James within
the Liberty and County aforesaid, And that it so happened that the said Abraham Javelleaue
casually and by Misfortune and against the Will of the said Thomas, then and there fell
with his Head upon and against a certain Iron Grate fixed in the said Stable Yard, by Means
of which said fall he the said Abraham Javelleave did then and there Casually and by
Misfortune and against the Will of the said Thomas, receive one Mortal Wound in and upon the
Rightside of his Head, of which said mortal Wound he the said Abraham Javelleaue from the said
Twenty third day of January in the Year aforesaid until the Twentieth day of February in the
same Year at St. George's Hospital in the said Parish of St. George Hanover Square with in
the Liberty and County aforesaid did languish and languishing did live, on which said
Twentieth day of February in the Year aforesaid he the said Abraham Javelleaue 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 Abraham Javelleaue in Manner and by
the Means aforesaid, Casually and by Misfortune and against the Will of the said
Thomas, did come to his Death. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as
the said William Hunter< 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

W: Hunter Foreman




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