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 the
King, at The Parish of Saint Martin in the Fields
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Twelfth Day of November in the Seventeenth 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
John Young< no role > an Infant then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of George
Harrison
< no role > , Joseph Chanell< no role > , Robert Berry< no role > , John Scott< no role > , Robert Collier< no role > , William
Savinack
< no role > , Thomas Frimlett,< no role > Richard Wainwright< no role > , Thomas Hodgson< no role > , Christopher
Wildman
< no role > , David Richards< no role > & Wm. Dillingham< 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 John Yonge came to
h is- Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said John Yonge the Infant
on the Eleventh day of November in the Year aforesaid being
in a Garret in the Dwelling House of Hercules Yonge< no role > situate
in Castle Court in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty
and County aforesaid, and then and there sitting upon
the Window on the inside of the said Garret, It so happened
that the said John Yonge the Infant then and there
Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune fell out of and
through the said Garret Window unto and upon the Stone Pavement
in the said Court, and thereby then and there received one
mortal Fracture in and upon the Right side of the Head of him
the said John Young< no role > , of which said mortal Fracture he the said
John Yonge then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon
their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said John Yonge in manner
and by the means aforesaid Accidentally Casually and by misfortune
the said Coroner as the said George Harrison< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors
have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day Year
and Place first abovewritten

Thos. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner

George Harrison< no role > [mark] Foreman




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