City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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2nd January 1786 - 23rd December 1786

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Image 346 of 83110th June 1786


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 Tenth day of June in the twenty sixth
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 Mary Griffiths< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of
Leonard Clow< no role > : Nathaniel Jones< no role > , William Carter< no role > ,
Elias Glaire< no role > , Joseph Bacon< no role > , Thomas Rawlins< no role > , Thomas Davis< no role > ,
Samuel Ward< no role > . Richard Piddock< no role > , Richard Rogers< no role > , Thomas Gyde< no role > ,
and Thomas Bates< 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 Mary Griggiths came to
h er Death,do upon their Oath say, That the said Mary Griffiths< no role > on the
Thirtieth day of May in the Year aforesaid, being in a certain
Publick Street or Highway Called Gardeners Lane in the Parish
aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, It so happened
That a Tile felldown off and from a certain House Standing
in the said Lane upon the Head of the said Mary Griffiths< no role > ,
by Means where of the said Mary Griffiths< no role > [..] then and
there Accidentally [..] ans by [..] receive one
Mortal Fracture in and upon the Fore [..] her Head.
of which said Mortal Fracture, She the said Mary Griffiths< no role >
from the said Thirtieth day of May in the [..] aforesaid
until the Ninth day of June in the same Year at the Parish
and in the Liberty and County aforesaid, did languish and
languishing did live, on which said Ninth day of June in the
Year aforesaid, at the said Parish of St, Margaret She the said
Mary Griffiths< no role > of the Mortal Fracture aforesaid did die, And so the
Jurors aforesaid, upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said
Mary Griffiths< no role > in Manner and by the Means aforesaid, Accidentally,
Casually and by Misfortune came to her death, and not otherwise,

In Witness where of, as well the said Coroner
as the said Leonard Clow< 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 above Mentioned.

Tho.Prickard< no role > Coroner
Leo. Clow< no role > Foreman




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