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 Thomas French< no role > Sign of the Pelham Arms in George Street 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 first day of August 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 Anne Etheridge< 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 Anne Etheridge Came to her Death, do upon
their Oath say that the said Anne Etheridge< no role > on the twenty ninth
day of July in the Year afoersaid at the Parish and in
the Liberty aforesaid being taking in some Linnen which
was hung out of a certain two Pair of Stairs Windows of a
certain House in Duke Street aforesaid It so happened
that accidentally casually and by Misfortune she the
said Anne Ettheridge< no role > fell out of the said Window to and
against she StonePavement and by Means thereof did
then and there receive a Mortal Fracture on her Scull of
which said Mortal Fracture she the said Anne Etheridge< no role >
did languish and languishing did live until the thereby
first day of July in the Year aforesaid on which said thirty
first day of July in the Parish aforesaid of the said mortal
Fracture on the Scull she the said Anne Etheridge, did die
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say
that the said Anne Etheridge in manner and by the Means
aforesaid accidentally casually and by Misfortune came to her
Death and not otherwise
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]

Francis Metcalf< no role > [mark]
John Bower< no role > [mark]
John Box< no role > [mark]
Thos Burgess< no role > [mark]
Wm Danton< no role > [mark]

Thomas Woodson< no role > [mark]
Thos. Cole< no role > [mark]
Wm Sutton< no role > [mark]
Peter Maclaren< no role > [mark]
Eavatt Thomson< no role > [mark]
Thoms. Graham< no role > [mark]

James Ackland< no role > [..] [mark]




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