City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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5th January 1789 - 29th December 1789

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Image 217 of 76613th April 1789


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 St. 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 Thirteenth day of April in the twenty ninth
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 Callowhill< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of John Taylor< no role > , Thomas Durham< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. , William Booth< no role >
Richard Kent< no role > , William Eaney< no role > , Henry Nichols< no role > , James Johnson< no role >
John Papagog< no role > , Sebestian Guerint< no role > , Martin Blundall< no role > , William
Lipop
< no role > and Jonathan Gibbs< 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 Callowhill came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say That on the Twenty ninth day of March
in the year aforesaid the said Mary Callowhill being alone sitting
before the Fire in a Room in the Dwelling House of Rebecca Lee< no role > situate in
Hanover Square in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County
aforesaid and being a Person subject to Fits, It so happened that the said
Mary Callowhill in a Fit fell down upon the Iron Grate and that the
Breast Neck Fall Head and [..] of her the said Mary Callow hill< no role > were
then and there Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune burnt in the
fire of the said Grate, of which said burning she the said Mary Callowhill
from the said Twenty ninth day of March until the Eleventh day of
April in the year aforesaid at the said Parish of St. George Hanover
Square within the Liberty and County aforesaid did languish and
languishing did live on which said Eleventh day of April in the
year aforesaid she the said Mary Callowhill at the Parish Liberty
and County aforesaid of the burning aforesaid did die, And so the
Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Mary
Callowhill 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
John Taylor< 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 abovementioned

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner
John Taylor< no role > [mark] Foreman




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