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 Smith< no role > the Sign of the Kings head in York Street Parish of St. Margaret
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church
of St. Peter, Westminster , in the County of Middlesex , the nineteenth day of October 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 John Allmen< 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 John Allmen came to his Death, do upon
their Oath say that the said John Allmen on the twenty ninth day of August in the year aforesaid
at the Parish and in the Liberty aforesaid To Wit in Tothill Street then and there passing by &
being much intoxicated with Liquor It so happened that the said John Allmen then and there
accidentally casually and by Misfortune slipped in his feet and fell to the Ground across the
said Street near aute the near wheel of a certain Cart drawn by three Horses by means whereof
the said near Wheel of the said Cart did then and there men against the right ander of him the
said John Allmen by Means whereof he the said John Allmen did then and there receive a Mortal
Bruise on the said right and [..] which turned to a Mortification of which said Mortification
so occasioned as aforesaid he the said John Allmen at the Westminster Infirmary did languish
and languishing did live until the eighteenth day of october in the year aforesaid at the
Infirmary aforesaid on which said eighteenth day of october in the Year aforesaid at the
Westminster Infirmary lathe said John Allmen of the [..] [..] aforesaid did die
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said John Allmen
in manner and by the Means aforesaid accidentally casually and by Misfortune
came to his death and not otherwise and that the said near Wheel of the said
Cont was moving to the Death of the said John Allman< no role > and is of the Value of six
hence but whose property and in whose possession no Evidence thereof doth appear to the
said Jurors

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
Richard Helper< no role >
Foreman
John Ball< no role >
Jno. Atkin< no role >
Edwd. Williams< no role >

James Lawrance< no role >
John Nott< no role >
Wm. Button< no role >
Thos. Jerd< no role >
The Mark of Robr
Tallworthy
< no role > [..]

William Lawrens< no role >
William Cooke< no role >
The [mark] mark of
John Hobbs< no role >




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