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

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Image 656 of 89922nd 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 Dwelling House of John Tranfield< no role > the Sign of the Triumphant Chariot in Ricadilly in the
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 twenty second day of September 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 Samuel Milton< 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 Samuel Milton< no role > came to h is Death, do upon
their Oath say that the said Samuel Milton< no role > (Bricklayers Labourer ) being at Work
on an old Brick Arch was belonging to Carnden Housethe DwellingBoarding on the Seventeenth
day of September in the year aforesaid at the Parish of Kensington in the County
aforesaid It so happened that accidentally casually and by Misfortune
the said Archway gave Way & fell to the Ground by means whereof the
Legs of him the said Samuel Milton< no role > were then and there fractured: Of
which said Fractures he the said Samuel Milton< no role > did Languish and
languishing did live until the twentieth day of September in the Year
aforesaid on which said twentieth day of September he the said Samuel
Milton
< no role > of the said Fractures at Saint Georges Hospital in the
Liberty aforesaid did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon
their Oath aforesaid do say that the said Samuel Milton< 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 Inqusition
set their Hands and Seals the Day, Year, and Place first above written.

Anthy. Gell< no role >
Coroner } [mark]
H: Balper [mark]
Warren [mark]
Thos Mills< no role > [mark]
Tho Jashon< no role > [mark]
James Tidd< no role > [mark]
Joseph Todd< no role > [mark]

C Walpels [mark]
Wm Griffes< no role > [mark]
George Blasts< no role > [mark]
Hugh. Bushby< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. [mark]
James Gadd< no role > [mark]
Thomas List< no role > [mark]




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