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 County of
Middlesex .}
to wit,


An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King at the House of Thomas Shirling< no role > Sign of the Bear in Park Count Knights bridge Parish of St. Margarets
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, West minster,
in the County of Middlesex , the thirtieth day of May 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 LadyBrown 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 LadyBrown came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say that on the seventeenth day of May in the year aforesaid at
the Parish and in the Liberty aforesaid To Wit at the Dwelling House of her the said
Lady Brown in Park Court aforesaid, her Son Sir William Brown< no role > then being lunatic
and distracted and of unsound Mind Memory and understanding, with a certain
Iron Poker which he the said Sir William Brown< no role > their and there had and held
in both his hands her the said LadyBrown, in and upon her head and other
Parts of her the said LadyBrown, then and there divers times so being lunatic
and distracted and of unsound Maid Memory and understanding as aforesaid
did strike and beat: And that the said Sir William Brown< no role > did then and there
give unto her the said Lay. Brown in and upon her head with the Iron
Poker aforesaid divers Mortal Bruises; Of which said Mortal Bruises she
the said Lady Brown did languish and languishing did live until
the said thirtieth day of May; On which said thirtieth day of May, she the said
LadyBrown of the Mortal Bruises aforesaid, did die And so the Jurors
aforesaid, upon their Oath aforesaid do say that he the said Sir William Brown< no role >
so being lunatic and distracted, and of unsound Mind, Memory and Understanding
in manner and by the Means aforesaid her the said LadyBrown
did kill. 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 }

Jno Brainsgrove< no role >
Foreman}

James Pagan< no role >
Jno Hooton< no role >
Geo Gosington< no role >
John Walton< no role >

Wm Reed< no role >
Saml Brodhurst< no role >
Thos Heath< no role >
T Bevis
M Hughes [..]
James Elwell< no role >

John Lethbridge< no role >
Thos Eaton< no role >




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