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

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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 Twenty third day of November in the Thirtieth
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 Elizabeth Kennedy< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Joseph Heggs< no role > , Francis Casserett< no role > , Thomas Beddows< no role > , John
Tuscot
< no role > , William Walker< no role > , John Collinwood< no role > , Jeremiah Carroway< no role > ,
William Conyers< no role > , John J'mason< no role > , James Forbes< no role > , William Warren< no role >
William Hall< no role > and Hugh Griffiths< 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 Elizabeth Kennedy< no role > came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say That the said Elizabeth an Infant of
the Age of Nine Years on the Fifteenth day of November in the Year aforesaid
being at Play with another Infant, in the Lodging Room or Apartment of
Mary Ashforth< no role > , in the House of John J'mason, situate in Down Street in
the said Parish of Saint George Hanover Square , within the Liberty and
County aforesaid, And that the said Elizabeth Kennedy< no role > Accidentally Causally and
by Misfortune, fell out of and through one of the Windows in the said Room, on
the First Floor, upon the Stone Pavement in the Street before the said House
and thereby then and these Received a mortal Concussion in the Brain of her
the said Elizabeth Kennedy< no role > , of which and said mortal Concussion she the said
Elizabeth Kennedy< no role > from the said Fifteenth day of November in the Year aforesaid
until the nineteenth day of the same Month and year at the said Parish of St.
George Hanover Square , within the Liberty and County aforesaid did languish and
live, on which said nineteenth day of November in the Year afordsaid, at the Parish
and in the Liberty and County aforesaid she the said Elizabeth Kennedy< no role > , of the
mortal Cuncussion aforesaid did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their
Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said Elizabeth Kennedy< no role > in manner and by the means
aforesaid Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune came to Death.

In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Joseph Higgs< 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 > Coroner
Joseph Higgs< no role > Foreman




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