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

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Image 258 of 8578th May 1799


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 Joseph Poynton< no role > the Sign of the Phonix in Palan Street peinlic's
in the Parish of St. Margaret within the Liberty of Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church
of St. Peter, Westminster , in the County of Middlesex , the eighth day of May 1799
in the thirty ninth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third,
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 Body of Elizabeth Payne< 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 Elizabeth Payne< no role > came to h er Death, do upon
their Oath say that the said Elizabeth Payne< no role > on the Sixth
day of May in the Year aforesaid at the
Parish and in the Liberty aforesaid [..]
died Suddenly through Intoxication by [..]
an Excess of drinking
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 }

Richd Testick< no role >
Hr [..]
Benjr Wepan< no role >
Ald Haigh< no role >
Geo. St John< no role >

Willm. Hudsen< no role >
Samuel Keep< no role >
John Clarke< no role >
William Stone< no role >
Alexr. Robertson< no role >
Thos William< no role >

George Wyeth< no role >
Thos Townsend< no role >
Jas. Wade< no role >




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