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 Thomas Phillips< no role > the Sign of the Fox of Knightbirdge in the parish of St
Margaret within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church
of St. Peter, Westminster , in the County of Middlesex , the thirteenth day of June 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 the Body of George Dean< 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 George Dean< no role > came to h is Death, do upon
their Oath say that the said George Dean< no role > on the third day of June in
the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty aforesaid To wit in Eton
Street prenties then & there being at work at the top of a certain House
It so happened that accidentally casually and by Misfortune he the
said George Dean< no role > fell from off the top of the said House unto and
against the Ground by means whereof the two Legs & other part of the
the said Body of the said George Dean< no role > was then & there fractured
bruised of which said Fractures & Bruises he the said George Dean< no role > did
languish and languish did live until the fourteenth day of June
in the Year aforesaid; On which said fourteenth day of June in
the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty aforesaid
To Wit of the said Fracturer & Bruises he the said George Dean< no role >
did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid
do say that the said george Dean< no role > in manner & 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 }
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Geo Clarke< no role > [mark]
Jas Edwards< no role > [mark]
Jams Payan< no role >
[mark]
John Allen< no role > [mark]

Wm Jones< no role > [mark]
Jonah Knight< no role > [mark]
Stephen Allen< no role > [mark]
Henry Tullward< no role > [mark]
James Clarke< no role > [mark]

Jas Taylor< no role > [mark]




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