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

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Image 466 of 80113th July 1793


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Information of Witnesses taken this 13th. day
of July 1793 in the Parish of St. George Hanover
Square at the House of John Bryan< no role > the
Sign of the Juror in Upper Mount Street
before Anthy Gell< no role > Coroner for the City and
Liberty aforrsd touching the birth of
John Soley< no role > then and there lying dead, as
follow

Leonard Spurling< no role > Workman with Mr. Storer
Undertaken Mount that being sworn deponent
and saith that Yesterday (Friday) morng the 12th.
his that abot. 11 his Month [..] himto plate a
Body from
the Boat hour by Serpentine River
Hyde Park and when he arrived be found the deceased
there and was informed that he went into the Rowin abst.
to that morning to beth and was drowned and that
this deponent with other brought the deceased to his Misters House in a
Street about 3 o'Clock that afternoon

Leonard Spurling< no role >

The Verdict

That John Soley< no role > was Accidentally
drowned

Jonas Jones< no role >
Foreman




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