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 Margaret
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St, Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Twenty ninth day of August in the Thirty 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 Jane Dingler< no role > then and there lying dead , upon
the Oath of William Mourn< no role > , Robert Moore< no role > , James Masson< no role > , Richard
Hatch
< no role > , Francis Penn< no role > , Peter Marshall< no role > , John Heideman< no role > William Cartwright< no role >
Thomas Saunders< no role > , William Dawnes, William Baldwin< no role > , John Thomas< no role > , Robert
Sampson
< no role > , James Cosby< no role > and Thomas Thompson< no role > good and lawfull 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 Dingler came to
her Death, do upon their Oath say That George Dingler< no role > late of the said Parish of
Saint Margaret within the Liberty and County aforesaid Laborer not having the
Fear of God before his Eyes but being mased and seduced by the Instigation of the Devil
on the Sixteenth day of August in the Year aforesaid with Force and Arms at the Parish
aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid in and upon the said Jane Dingler< no role >
Wife of the said George Dingler< no role > in the peace of God and of our said Lord the King then
and there being Feloniously Wilfully and of his Malice forethought did maker on assault
And that the said George Dingler< no role > with both his Hands her the said Jane Dingler to and
upon the Floor then and these Feloniously wilfully and of his Malice forethougth Violently
did cast and throw and with both his Kness did Kneal upon the Body of the said Jane
Dingler then lying upon the Floor and that the said George Dirgler by the Weight and
Pressure upon the Body of the said Jane Dirgler did then and there give unto her the
said Jane Dingler in and upon her Body divers mortal Bunises and that the said George
Dingler
< no role > with a Certain Knife made of Iron and Steel which he the said George Dingler< no role > then
and there had and held in his right Hand her the said Jane Dingler in and upon the Breast
and divers parts of the Body of her the said Jane Dingler Lying upon the Floor as aforesaid did
then and there sticke stab and Penetrate therely then and there giving unto her the said Jane
Dirgler with the [..] aforesaid divers mortal wounds in and upon the Bread and livers parts of
the Body of her the said Jane Dingler of which said mortal Bruises and Wounds she the said Jane
Dingler at the Westminster Hospital in the said Parish of St, Margaret within the Liberty and County
aforesaid from the said Sixteenth day of August in the Year aforesaid until the Twenty Eighth day of
the same Month in the same Year did languish and Languishing did live on which said Twenty Eight day
of August in the Year aforesaid at the parish and in the liberty and County aforesaid she the said Jane Dirgler
of the mortal Bruises and Wounds aforesaid did die, And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid
do say that the said George Dingler< no role > her the said Jane Dingler his Wife in Manner and by the oneans [..]
aforesaid feloniusly wilfully and of his Malice forethought did hell and under against the peace of our said
Lord the King his Crown and Dignity And that the said George Dingler< no role > at the Time of Commiting the Felory
and Murder aforesaid has no Goods or Chattles Lands or Tenement, within the said Liberty on [..] to the
Knowledge of the said Jurors,

In Witness where of well the said Coroner as the said william
Mourn
< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors on the behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows in their presence have
to there Inquisition set their Hand, and Seals the day Year and Place abovementioned.

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

Wm Mourn< no role > Foreman




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