City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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9th January 1797 - 29th December 1797

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Image 558 of 7929th August 1797


City of Liberty
of Westminster ,
in the County of
Middlesex to Wit.

An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King at The Dwelling House of Fredk: Jno. Hicks< no role > the Sign of the King's head Kinghtsbridge parish
of Saint Margaret within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church
of St. Peter, Westminster , in the County of Middlesex , the ninth day of August 1794
in the thirty Seventh 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 a Man unknown 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 Man unknown came to h is Death, do upon
their Oath say that the said Man unknown on the said
Ninth day of August at the Parish and in
the Liberty aforesaid To Wit in the Serpentine
River was then and there found drowned,
But how and by what Means the said
Man Unknown came there no Evidence thereof
doth appear to the said Jurors

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Juroros, have to this Inquisition
set their hands and seals the Day, Year, and Place first above written.

Anthy Gell< no role >
Coroner
Geo Puffer< no role >
John Kitchen< no role >
Saml Millner< no role >
John Butterworth< no role >

William Pinder< no role >
Edwd. Carr< no role >
Robert Herring< no role >
James Pagan< no role >
Jno. Burr< no role >

Tho. Barber< no role >
Thos. Harland< no role >
James Cox< no role >




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