City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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9th January 1794 - 27th December 1794

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City and Liberty
of Westminster ,
in the Country of
Middlesex .
to wit.

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An Inquisition Indented,taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King at the House Thomas Huggins< no role > Sign of the Barn in St.Martin Lane parish of St. Martin in the Fields
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the Country of Middlesex , the fourth day of February 1794 in the thirty fourth
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 Bramdram< no role > then and there lying dead,upon
the Oath of the several Jurors Whole Names one here end as 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 William Bramdram< no role > came to
his Death, do upon their Oath say that the said William Bramdram on the Evening of
Monday the third day of February in the year aforesaid at the Parish and in the
Liberty aforesaid in endeavouring to gain Admission into the Pitt of the little
Theatre in the Hay market It so happened that Accidentally, casually
and by Misfortune and by the Press me of the Crowd of Persons also endeavouring
to gain Admission he the said William Bramdram was suffocated thrown
down and trampled upon in the Passage there loading to the said Pitt
Of which said Suffocation and Trampling he the said Williams
Bramdram then and there instantly died And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say,that the said
William Bramdram in manner and by the Means aforesaid
accidentally casually and by Misfortune came to his Death and
not otherwise. In Witnesses where of as well the said Coroner
as the said Jurors house to this Inquisition set their hands and
Seals the day year and Place first above-written.

Anthy. Gell< no role >
Coroner } [mark]

Tho. Waller< no role > [mark]
Foreman [mark]
Wm. Lewis< no role > [mark]
John Green< no role > [mark]
Thos. Kingham< no role > [mark]
Chas. Rymer< no role > [mark]

Thos. Middleditch< no role > [mark]
P LeJeune [mark]
Richd. Adey< no role > [mark]
Alexr. Anchor< no role > [mark]
Jn. Beavan< no role > [mark]
P. Richardson [mark]

Thomas Stiff< no role > [mark]




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