City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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3rd January 1784 - 29th December 1784

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Image 88 of 70622nd January 1784


City & Liberty of
Westmr . in the
County of Midsex

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Informations taken this Twenty second
day of January 1784 at the Parish of St.
Margaret within the Liberty of Westmr.
in the County of Middlesex upon an Inquisition
touching the death of James Doyl< no role > lying
dead in the said Parish Liberty & County

Thomas Morris< no role > a Chelsea Pensioner on his Oath
saith That on Tuesday last between four and
five o'Clock in the Afternoon this Dept. was
returning from Chelsea College where he received
half a year's Pension, and being with James
Sterling
< no role > [..] another Pensioner in the Road
between Chelsea Bridge and the Fire Engine
he heard a Cart in the Road following them
(Dept. walking in the Middle of the Road) Say
that two Carts passed by, and that one of them
forced the Deced down and the Meet passed on
the Deced's Loyns, Says that when he recovered
himself he saw a Man (when he did not known
lying dead in the Road orderly opposite to the
Place where Depont. laid but Dept. does not know
what occasioned his Death

Thomas Morris< no role >
[mark]
his Mark

Richard Smith< no role > a soldier in Col Bosewering Company in
the Second Regiment of Guards on his Oath saith
That about five o'Clock on Tuesday last the twentieth
day of January in the afternoon Dept. was coming
from Chelsea and being in the Road between chelsea
Bridge




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