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

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Image 472 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 Swan in Upper
Mount Street before Anthy Gell< no role >
Coroner for the City and Liberty aforesd.
touching the death of JohnGeorge
Pringle
< no role > then and there lying dead
as follow

Mr. Leonard Spurling< no role > being sworn sayell that abot. 10
last Night he was sent for to the human Society
Room in Hyde to a Bay who was reported to have been
in the Serpentine River in bathing
drowned that afternoon and when he came stone he was
informed that some Medical Gentleman had been tuyiny
every necessary sworn for his Recovery but without
effect and that abot. six this morning this Depont.
and other of his Mesters Workman brot. the deceased
to his said Mesters House.

Leonard Sparling< no role >

The Verdict That George Pringle< no role > was accidentally
drowned in the Serpentine River when bathing

Jonas Jones< no role >
Foreman




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