City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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2nd January 1787 - 29th December 1787

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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 George Hanover Square
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Ninth day of June in the twenty seventh
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 City and Liberty, on
View of the Body of George Kent< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Philip Mitchell< no role > , William Jones< no role > , William Mathew< no role >
Anthony Hainaker< no role > , Robert Philimore< no role > , Samuel Neak< no role > ,
William Sills< no role > , William Hughes< no role > , William Pixley< no role > ,
William Crook< no role > , Jaques Dalby< no role > , & John Harris< 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 George Kent< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said George Kent< no role > of the
said Ninth day of June in the Year aforesaid about the Hour of
two in the Morning was riding the Foot board behind the
Coach of Sir Charles Watson< no role > Baronet in the Publick Highway
at Pimlico in the said Parish of St. George Hanover Square
within the Liberty & County aforesaid, And then and there being
in Liquor, it so happened that the said George [..] nt Accidentally
Casually and by Misfortune fell off and from the Foot board of
the said Coach unto the Ground in the said Publick Highway
by Means whereof the said George Kent< no role > did then and there
receive a mortal Fracture in and upon the Ribs and also a
Bruise upon the Left side of him the said George Kent< no role > , of which
said Mortal Bruise and Fracture he the said George Kent< no role >
then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their
Oath aforesaid do say that the said George Kent< no role > in manner
and by the Means aforesaid Accidentally, Casually and by
Misfortune came to his Death, and not otherwise.

In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Philip
Mitchell
< 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 & Place
abovementioned

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner
P. Mitchell [mark] Foreman




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