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

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Image 459 of 7828th August 1794


City of Liberty
of Westminster
in the County of
middlesex }
to Wit.


An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King, at the House of Joseph Stevenson< no role > being the Angel Inn in Wych Street Parish of St. Clemt. Danes
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the eighth day of August 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 Badger< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of the several Jurors whose Names are here under 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 Badger< no role > came to
his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said William Badger< no role > on the eight day of
August in the year aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty aforesaid having
slept in a bed room in the Gallery of the Angel Inn aforesaid It so happened
that accidentally casually and by Misfortune he the said William Badger< no role > fellow
the railling of the said Gallery into the yard belonging to the said Angel Inn By man
whereof he the said William Badger< no role > the and there received divers Mortal Bruises upon
his Head and Body: Of which said Mortal Bruises he the said William Badger< no role > then
and there instantly died. And so the Jurors aforesaid ad by the means aforesaid
do say that the said William Badger< no role > in manner and by the means aforesaid
accidentally casually and by Misfortune came to his Death and not otherwise.

In Witness where of 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 }

Robt Leeming< no role >
Foreman
James Birks< no role >
William Smith< no role >
John Smith< no role >

Jno. Allcock< no role >
Geo White< no role >
Jno Elsworth< no role >
John Mearn< no role >
Samuel P [..]
George Gardener< no role >

Willm Dowlin< no role >
Wm Lording< no role >
Willm Gile< no role >
Jone Pollard< no role >
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