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 John the Evangelist
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapeter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the fifteenth day of September 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 James Glanvill< no role > then and there lying dead , upon
the Oath of John Donne< no role > , James Randall< no role > , Dennis Donnovan< no role >
Solomon Chambers< no role > , Charles Snook< no role > , John White< no role > , William Crump< no role >
James Sheldon< no role > , John Jones< no role > , William Rodman< no role > , Elias Gardiner< no role >
and John Dickman< 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 James Glanvill< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said James Glanvill on the
fourteenth day of September in the Year aforesaid going into the River
Thames at a Place called Milbank in the said Parish o St. John
the Evangelist within the Liberty and County aforesaid these to bathe
himself it so happened that the said James Glanvill Accidentally
Casually and by misfortune was then and these in the Water of the
said River suffocated and drowned of which said Suffocation
and drowning he the said James Glanwill then and these instantly
died, And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say
that the said James Glanvill in manner and by the means aforesaid
Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune came to his Death and not
otherwise.

In Witness where of as well the said Cowner as
the said John Donne< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors on the behald
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

John Donne< no role > Foreman




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