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

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Image 646 of 89917th September 1798


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 Tranfield< no role > the Sign of the Triumphant Chariot in Piccadilly in the Parish
of St. GeorgeHanover Square within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church
of St. Peter, Westminster , in the County of Middlesex , the eighteenth Nineteenth days of September
in the thirty eight 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 Berisford< 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 Berisford< no role > came to h is Death, do upon
their Oath say that the said John Berisford< no role > on the
seventeenth day of September in the Year aforesaid at
the Parish of Saint Martin in the Fields within the
Liberty aforesaid, endeavouring to get out of the Window
in the first Storey of a certain House in Leicester Street,
it so happened that accidentally casually and by
Misfortune he the said John Berisford< no role > fell from the
said Window into the Area of the Adjoining House
by Means thereof He the said John Berisford< no role > did then
and there receive one mortal Wound of which said mortal
Wound He the said John Berisford< no role > the Saint George's
Hospital within the Liberty aforesaid on the said day
died, And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid
do say that the said John Berisford< no role > in Manner and by
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 Inqusition
set their Hands and Seals the Day, Year, and Place first above written.

Anthy. Gell< no role >
Coroner } [mark]
Jeffery Clamstead< no role > [mark]
M:K:Andrews [mark]
Tho. Byers< no role > [mark]
John Aitkens< no role > [mark]
William [..] [mark]
Richd. Withers< no role > [mark]
The [mark] Mark
of James Lloyd< no role > [mark]

John Bently< no role > [mark]
Joseph Cox< no role > [mark]
George Linnell< no role > [mark]
Josiah Wheeler< no role > [mark]

The [mark] Mark
of Jonathan Corby< no role > } [mark]

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