City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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5th January 1792 - 31st December 1792

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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 third day of August 1792 in the thirty second
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 Anthony
Gell
< no role > , Esq. Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on
View of the Body of John Moloy< no role > then and there lying dead , upon
the Oath of John Evans< no role > , George Dodd< no role > , Peter Vineing< no role > , Thomas Stafford< no role > , Robert
Sparrow
< no role > , George Ploughton< no role > , John George< no role > , Thomas Pool< no role > , Benjamin
Hubble
< no role > , James Morris< no role > , Thomas Vaughan< no role > , Edward Stephens< no role > , Abraham
Tibbatt
< no role > , and James Stephens< 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 John Moloy came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say that the said John Moloy on the First
day of August 1792 in the Year aforesaid; at the Parish and in the
Liberty aforesaid; To wit in the Supentime River in Hyde Park ,
true going into Cathe himself, it so happened, that recidentally,
casually and by Misfortune, he the said John Moloy was in the water
of the said River, then and there suffocated and drowned of which said
suffocation and Drowning he the said John Moley< no role > then and there
instantly died. And so the Jurors aforesaid, upon their Oath aforesaid,
do say, that the said John Moloy, 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 Coroner as the said as the said John Evans< no role > Foreman
of the said Jurors on the behalf of himself and the rest of his
said Fellows in their presence have to this Inquisition set
their hands and Seals the day Year, and place abovewritten

Anthy [mark] Coroner
Jno. [..] Van [mark] Foreman




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