City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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11th January 1776 - 30th December 1776

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City and Liberty
of Westminster
in the County of
Middlesex .}
to wit.

An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign, Lord
King, at the Parish of Saint Anne
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Seventeenth day of January in the Sixteenth 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
Jane Penton< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Richard
Nowlson
< no role > , William Milburn< no role > , George Barber< no role > , Francis Preston< no role > , John Innscent,
John Dovey< no role > , John James Bonett< no role > , Charles Gray< no role > , William Humfrey< no role > John Watts< no role > ,
John Skene< no role > , Thomas Hinton< no role > & James Debatt< 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 what Means the said Jane Panton< no role > came to
her Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Jane Penton< no role > on the Third day
of January in the Year aforesaid being on foot and crossing from Covent-
Garden into Russell Street in the Parish of St. Paul Covent Garden within
the Liberty and County aforesaid, and that a Man was then and there
driving an Empty Carriage Drawn by two Horses, and the said Jane
Penton
< no role > being old and infirm fell down near unto the said Carriage, and
that the Wheel of the said Carriage accidentally Causally and by Misfortune
passed over the Body of the said Jane Penton< no role > , whereby the said Jane Penton< no role >
then and there received Bruises in and upon her Body, of which said
Bruises she the said Jane Penton< no role > from the said Third Day of January
in the Year aforesaid until the Fifteenth day of the same month at the
said Parish of St. Anne within the Liberty and County aforesaid did
languish and languishing did live on which said Fifteenth day of
January aforesaid at the said Parish of St. Anne she the said Jane
Penton
< no role > of the Bruises aforesaid did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their Oath aforesaid do say, That the said Jane Penton< no role > in Manner
and by the Means aforesaid Accidentally Causally and by Misfortune
came to her death and not otherwise. An Witness whereof as well
the said Coroner, as the Said Richard Nowlson< no role > Foreman of the said
Jurors, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day
Year and Place first above written

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

Ricd. Nowlson< no role > Foreman




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