City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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5th January 1793 - 30th December 1793

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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 William Hatchett< no role > in Eaton Street Pimlico , Parish of St. George Hanover Square Sign of the Shakespear
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the twenty seventh day of April 1793 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 Jonathan Estall< no role > an Infant then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of the several Jurors whose Names are hereunder written and
Seals affixed
good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
chosen, who being then and there duly sworn and charged to enquire of our said Lord the
King, when, how, and by what Means the said Jonathan Estall< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say that the said Jonathan Estall< no role > on the twenty sixth
day of April in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty aforesaid
To Wit in or near pimlies Wharf there being at play with his Brother it so
happened that accidentally, casually and by Misfortune he the said
Jonathan Estall< no role > rolled from off the Bank Side into the Water, by meant
whereof, he the said Jonathan Estall< no role > then & there was suffocated and
drowned Of which said Suffocation & Drowning he the said Jonathan
Estall then & there instantly died. And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their both aforesaid, do say, that the said Jonathan
Estall in manner and by the means aforesaid accidentally
casually & by Misfortune came to his Death & act otherwise
In Witness whereof aswell the said Coroner as the
said Jurors have to this Inquisition set their hands
& Seals the Day, Year, & place first above written.

Anthy Gell< no role >
Coroner }

Wm. Judson< no role >
Foreman}

R Glover

B Wardle
James Shuter< no role >
William Bows< no role >

Josh. Norris< no role > his mark
James King< no role >
Thomas Den< no role >

Thomas Stutchbry< no role >
Thos Lee< no role >
John Stephenson< no role >
P Barman




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