City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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3rd January 1798 - 31st December 1798

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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 Collett the Sign of the Roebuck on Millbank in the Parish of Saint
John 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 February 1798
in the thirty eighth 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 Martin< no role > then and there
lying dead, upon the Oath of 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 Martin< no role > came to his death, do upon
their Oath say that the said John Martin< no role > on the eighteenth day of
February in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty
aforesaid To Wit on Millbank aforesaid being then & there
passing by It so happened that accidentally casually
and by Misfortune he the said John Martin< no role > fell down a sleep
part of the said Bank by Means whereof he the said John
Martin
< no role > then and there received a Mortal Wound
and Bruise then and there instantly died. And
so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid
do say that the said John Martin< no role > in manner and
by the Means aforesaid accidentally casually and by
Misfortune came to his death and not otherwise.
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 > [mark]
Coroner }
Edwd. Willson< no role > [mark]
Charles Snook< no role > [mark]
Robt. Lambert< no role > [mark]
Ricd. Munday< no role > [mark]
Christ. Matthew< no role >

Wm. Streat< no role > [mark]
Humphrey Fitzor< no role > [mark]
James Vincent< no role > [mark]
John Vincent< no role > [mark]
Henry Kerslake< no role > [mark]
[..]

Moses Ford< no role > [mark]
J Townsend [mark]
Wm. Bartram< no role > [mark]
Samuel Wood< no role > [mark]




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