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 Dwelling House of John Tromfield< no role > in Piccaditly at the Parish of St. George Hanover Square Known by the Sign of the Triumphand Chariot
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the twenty first day of December 1792 in the thirty third
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 William James< no role > then and there lying dead , upon
the Oath of Francis Lye< no role > , James Bedford< no role > James Wise< no role > , Robert Hayden< no role >
William Corvar< no role > John Collins< no role > , William Fenn< no role > , Joseph Norris< no role > ,
John Weston< no role > , John Topping< no role > , Benjamin Evans< no role > , Samuel Smith< no role >
and John Worthy< 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 James< no role > came to
his Death, do upon their Oath say that the said William James< no role > on the Fifteenth day of
December in the year aforesaid, at the Parish of Saint Martin in the Fields, & in the Liberty
aforesaid, being employed then in cleaning Windows up three pair of Stairs in the Dwelling
House of John Williams< no role > Scituate in Saint Martins Lane It so happened that accidentally
casually and by Misfortune he the said William James< no role > than and there fell to the Ground
from the said three pair of Stairs Windows by means whereof he said William James< no role >
then and there received divers mortal Wounds on the Head of him the said William
James
< no role > , Of which said Mortal Wounds he the said William James< no role > from the said
Fifteenth day of December in the Year aforesaid at the Parish of Saint George Hanover
Square and in the Liberty aforesaid To Wit in a certain Hospital there called Saint
Georges Hospital until the Eighteenth day of the same Month did languish, and languishing
did live On which said Eighteenth day of December in the year aforesaid at the Parish last
mentioned in the Liberty aforesaid To Wit in the Hospital aforesaid of the divers Mortal
Wounds aforesaid, did die And so the Jurors aforesaid, upon their Oath aforesaid do say,
that the said William James< 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 Jurors have to
this Inquisition set their hands and Seals the Day Year & Place above written.

Anthy Gill< no role > Coroner
Fras. Lye< no role > Forman
Benjn. Bedford< no role >
James Wise< no role >
Robt. Hayden< no role >
Wm. Cawarn< no role >

John Collins< no role >
Wm Feny< no role >
Joseph Norris< no role >
John Weston< no role >
W John Sapping< no role >
Benj. Evans< no role >

The Mark of
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Saml. Smith< no role >

The Mark of
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Jno. Worthy< no role >




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