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

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Image 528 of 53828th December 1768


Memr That on the 28th day of Decr. 1768 I reced the
annexed Letter of a Man who told me that he came
from Mr. Martin Principal Agent to Mr. Serjeant Glynn
about two o'Clock in the Afternoon at my own House,
and upon Enquiry that Afternoon found that Andrew Alexander< no role > died at
Mr. Kelly's in St. James's Street on Wednesday the
14. day of Decr. 1768, having, (as he declared himself
several times in the hearing of divers Persons,
particularly the Man & his Wife who keep the
Sign of the Crown in little Suffolk Street ) kicked
the Heel of one of his Shoes against the Ancle
of his other foot, in walking home from Brentford
on Friday the 9th. of Decr. which caused his Ankle
to Swell, and a Mortification ensuing of which
he died Decr. 14. and was buried on the 16. of the
same Month at the Parish of St. Mary le bon in the
County of Middlesex , out of my Jurisdiction, Of which
I acquainted Mr. Umfreville one of the Coroners for
the said County the same Evening (Decr. 28th.) telling him
that if he would cause the Body of Andrew Alexander to
be taken up, and removed into any part of the Liberty
of Westmr. I was ready to take an Inquisition thereon.
I also informed Mr. Martin the same Evening of the
above particulars, and assured him of my readiness to
take an Inquisition, if he thought proper to desire
Mr. Umfreville to take up the Body.

I likewise then Acquainted Mr. Martin that I had
Ordered the Body of Andrew Thomas< no role > (who was
buried




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