City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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2nd January 1799 - 28th December 1799

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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 Tranfield< no role > the Sign of the Triumphant Chariot Piccadilly 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 eighth day of February 1799
in the thirty ninth 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 Thomas Bartlett< 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 Thomas Bartlett< no role > came to h is Death, do upon
their Oath say that the said Thomas Bartlett< no role > on the twenty sixth day of
February in the year aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty
aforesaid To Wit in Hyde Park then and there riding a certain
Horse It so happened that accidentally casually & by Misfortune
he the said Thomas Barlett< no role > from the said Horse unto and
against the Ground by Means whereof the left leg of him the said
Thomas Bartlett< no role > was fractured and a Blood Vessel ruptured
Of which said Fracture & Rupture he the said Thomas
Bartlett
< no role > on the same day, at Saint Georges Hospital
did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath
aforesaid do say that the said Thomas Bartlett< no role > in
manner and by the Means aforesaid accidentally casually
and by Misfortune, came to this death & 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
George Smith< no role >
B Wright
Robt Wilson< no role >
Willm Allen< no role >
James Plummer< no role >

Charles Haskew< no role >
W Speight
Wm Hatchett< no role >
Thos Denn< no role >
Dad. Henry< no role >
John Bates< no role >

Richd Wardle< no role >




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