City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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1st January 1790 - 31st December 1790

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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 Margaret
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Fourth day of January 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 Jane Williamson< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Richard Rogers< no role > , Thomas Saunders< no role > , Hugh Pain< no role >
Thomas Ridley< no role > , George Baxter< no role > , Thomas Brown< no role > , William Squibb< no role >
William Lee< no role > , Richard Piddock< no role > , Edward Hughes< no role > , Richard Mansell< no role >
John Allen< no role > and Humphrey Chadwick< 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 Jane Williamson came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Jane Williamson labouring
under a Grievious Disease of Body (to wit) a Fever and by reason of the
Violence of the said Disease being Delicious and out of her mind on the
Third day of January in the Year aforesaid from and out of a certain three
pair of Stairs Window then and there being, in the Lodging Room or Apartment
of her the said Jane Williamson in the Fleece Inn Yard in Tothill
Street situate in the said Parish of Saint Margaret within the Liberty
and County aforesaid, to the Ground did violently cast and throw herself
to and against the stone Pavement in the said Yard, by means whereof
she the said Jane Williamson so Delicious and out of her mind as aforesaid
did then and there receive a violent Concussion in the Brain, of which said
violent Concussion she the said Jane Williamson then and there instantly
died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the
said Jane Williamson being Delirous and out of her mind as aforesaid by
reason of the violence of the said Disease in manner and by the means
aforesaid did kill himself

In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner
as the said Richard Rogers< 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
Richd Roger< no role > Foreman




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