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

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City of 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 Henry Vincent< no role > in Mill Bank Parish of St. John Sign of the Feathers
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Eighteenth day of June 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 a Man unknown 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 for our said Lord the
King, when, how, and by what Means the said Man unknown came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say that the said Man unknown on the
Sixteenth day of May in the Year aforesaid at the Parish
and in the Liberty aforesaid being in a certain Boat on the
River Thomes, It so happened, that accidentally, casually, &
by Misfortune he the said Man unknown fell out of the said Boat into the
Fever Thomas, and in the water thereof was then and there suffocated; of and drowned
which said Suffocation & Drawing the said Man unknown then
and there instantly died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon
their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said Man unknown,
in manner and by the Means aforesaid, accidentally, causally
and by Misfortune came to his beath, 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, and Place first
above written

Anthy Gell< no role >
Coroner }

W Brown
Foreman
Gervis Carey< no role >

James Bass< no role >
James Randell< no role >
Henry Fry< no role >
Spooner Russell< no role >
John Vincent< no role >

John T Carper< no role >
Wm. Thos. Jones< no role >
Mr. Thomson
James Bly< no role >

Solm. Chamber< no role >
Jno. Gartson< no role >

The [mark] Mark
of John Rose< no role >




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