City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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1st January 1791 - 31st December 1791

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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 James
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Fourth day of May in the Twenty first
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 William Edward Glahome< no role > then and there lying dead , upon
the Oath of Cockburn Stewart< no role > , Michael Barny< no role > , John Smith< no role >
William Dison< no role > , Stephen Parry< no role > , Samuel Duke< no role > , Patrick Boyle< no role >
William Philpott< no role > , Miles Rollison< no role > , Joseph Hall< no role > Joseph Palmer< no role >
William Morrey< no role > , George Bennett< no role > , Robert Grierson< no role > , John Thompson< no role >
and John Burch< 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 William Edward Glahome< no role > came to
his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said William Edward Glahome< no role >
on the Twenty ninth day of June in the Year aforesaid at the Parish of
St. Martin in the Fields within the Liberty and County aforesaid to wit at
Hungerford Stairs going into the River Thames there to Bathe himself It so
happened that Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune he the said William
Edward Glahome
< no role > was in the Water of the said River then and there suffocated
and drowned of which said suffocation and drowington the said William
Edward Glahome
< no role > then and there died, And to the Jurors aforesaid upon
their Oath aforesaid do say that the said William Edward Glahome< 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 Cockburn Stewart< no role > Foreman of the said
Jurors on the behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows in their
Presence home to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the
Day Year and Place abovementioned

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

Cockn Stewart< no role > Foreman




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