City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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1st January 1779 - 29th December 1779

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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 Margaret
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Third day of May in the Nineteenth 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
Sarah Beaumont< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of William
Mann
< no role > , John Gosling< no role > , John Cullis< no role > , Robert Stonehill< no role > , John Wilson< no role >
John Rose< no role > , William Davis< no role > , Robert Bramham< no role > , Richard Kent< no role > , George
Solomon
< no role > , John Archer< no role > & Lewis Hamilton< 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 Sarah Beaumont< no role > came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say That the said Sarah Beaumont< no role > on the
Twenty sixth day of April in the Year aforesaid being upon the Tiling
on the outside of the dwelling House of John Davis< no role > situate in Hungerford
Street in the Parish of St. Martin in the Fields within the Liberty and
County aforesaid, and that it so happened that the said Sarah Beaumont< no role >
then and there Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune fell off and from
the top of the said House into the said Street, by Means whereof
the said Sarah Beaumont< no role > then and there did receive a Fracture of the Ribs on
the left side, and mortal Bruises in and upon the Body, of which said
mortal Fracture and Bruises she the said Sarah Beaumont< no role > from
the said Twenty sixth day of April in the Year aforesaid until the
First day of May in the same Year at the said Parish of St. Margaret
within the Liberty and County aforesaid did languish and languishing
did live, on which said First day of May in the Year aforesaid she the
said Sarah Beaumont< no role > at the said Parish of St. Margaret, of the
mortal Fracture and Bruises aforesaid did die. And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Sarah
Beaumont
< no role > in Manner and by the Means aforesaid Accidentally
Casually and by Misfortune came to her death, and not otherwise
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said
William Mann< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf
of himself and the rest of his said Fellows, in their presence,
have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals, the
Day Year and Place abovementioned.

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner .

William Mann< no role > Foreman




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