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

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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 Twentieth Day of April in the twenty fourth
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 Campbell< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Thomas Samms< no role > , John Copeland< no role > , David Gordon< no role > ,
Christopher Routledge< no role > , Joseph Smith< no role > Samuel Towell< no role > , William
Price
< no role > , John Gardiner< no role > , Thomas Hallows< no role > , Peter Ratley< no role > , Charles
Smith
< no role > , John Carling< no role > , Alexander Bissett< no role > and George
Findlay
< no role > good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
chosen, who being then and there duly sown and charged to enquire for our said Lord the
King, when, how, and by what Means the said Jane Campbell< no role > came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Jane Campbell< no role > ,
being Subject to violent Fits of Coughing and Vomiting, on
the Nineteenth day of April in the Year aforesaid being
alone in her Lodging Room or Apartment in the Dwelling
House of Richard Milsom situate in St. Martin's Lane
in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid
It so happened that the said Jane Campbell< no role > was then and
there seized with a violent Fit of Coughing, and having
a Black Ribband (which she always wore) tied tight about
her Neck, the said Jane Campbell< no role > was then and there Accidentally
and by Misfortune Choaked and Strangled, of which said
choaking and Strangling she the said Jane Campbell< no role > then
and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath
aforesaid do say, that the said Jane Campbell< no role > in Manner and
by the Means aforesaid Accidently and by Misfortune came to
her death and not otherwise. In Witness whereof
as well the said Coroner as the said Thomas Samms< no role >
Foreman of the said Jurors on the behalf of himself and
the rest of his Fellows in their presence have to this
Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day Year
and Place abovewritten

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner .

Thos. Samms
Foreman}




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