City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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2nd January 1795 - 28th December 1795

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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 John Woolbridge< no role > , Sign of the three Compasses upper Mount
Parish of St. George Hanover Square within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church
of St. Peter, Westminster , in the County of Middlesex , the twenty ninth day of July 1795
in the thirty fifth 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 Elizabeth Baley< 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 Elizabeth Baley< no role > came to her Death, do upon
their Oath say that the said Elizabeth Baley on the said twenty
ninth day of July in the Year aforesaid at the
Parish and in the Liberty aforesaid To Wit
in the Serpentine River in Hyde Park was
found drowned but how and by what
Means she came that no Evidence thereof
doth appear to the said Jurors

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Jurors, have to this Inqusition
set their Hands and Seals the Day, Year, and Place first above written.

Anthy Gell< no role >
Coroner }
[mark]

Harry Sideletham
Foreman
< no role > [mark]

James Staney< no role > [mark]
Thomas Doswell< no role > [mark]
Alexr. Stewart< no role > [mark]
Benjn Noon< no role > [mark]
John Blencowe< no role > [mark]
Saml. [..] [mark]

Jno. Shaw< no role > [mark]
John Jones< no role > [mark]
William Smith< no role > [mark]
Thos Gronna< no role > [mark]
John Woodbridge< no role > [mark]




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