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 Harrison< no role > the Sign of the Stanhope Arms Oxendon Street in the
Parish of St. Martin in the Fields Within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church
of St. Peter, Westminster , in the County of Middlesex , the first day of July 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 William Clifton< no role > then and there
lying dead, upon the Oath of the several Juror 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 William Clifton< no role > came to h is Death, do upon
their Oath say that the said William Clifton< no role > on the twenty
ninth day of June in the Year aforesaid at the
Parish and in the Liberty aforesaid To Wit
in the Hay Market , died, by the
Visitation of God in a natural Way To
Wit of a Fit occasioned by over Exertion
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]

Frans Thos Mattas< no role > [mark]
Willm. Caslake< no role > [mark]
Tho. Desinnas< no role > [mark]
James Squire< no role > [mark]
Wm. Paring< no role > [mark]
W [..] [mark]

William Jones< no role > [mark]
Jas Sayer< no role > [mark]
James Lang< no role > [mark]
George Mastall< no role > [mark]
David Dalglish< no role > [mark]
Thos Arnes< no role > [mark]

Richd Bilton< no role > [mark]




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