City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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3rd January 1791 - 30th December 1791

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Image 116 of 6724th March 1791


London


To Shelton
Corr.


An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to say
at the Parish of Saint Bartholomew the less in the wart of Farringdon without on London aforesaid
on the fourth day of March in the durly [..] year of the reign of our sovereign Lord George the
third by the grace of God of Grant Britain France and Ireland King defender of the faith and
forth before Thomas Shelton< no role > Gentleman Coroner of our said Lord the King for the City of London and
Borough of Southwark on view of the Body of Edward Hale< no role > now here lying dead by the Oath of
Nicholas Gainsford< no role > Ralph Questead< no role > This name instance is in set 2013. William Gough< no role > Thomas Rowney< no role > George Cromer< no role > Jonah Kinsey< no role >
James Hallon< no role > Benjamin Buker John Farbuck< no role > William Tune< no role > Thomas Parry< no role > William Haditch< no role >
Thomas Fennihouse< no role > Thomas Palmer< no role > William Buck< no role > William Williams< no role > James Twitchell< no role >
Thomas Cats< no role > John Allen< no role > and James Peters< no role > good and lawful men of the City of London who
being now here duly chosen sworn and charge to is pure for our Lord the King when how
and in what manner the said Edward Hall< no role > came to his death say upon their Oath that the said
Edward Heale< no role > on the twenty sixth day of February in the thirty first year aforesaid by intoxicated
and drunk with accessive drinking and being going and Passing along and through a certain P*
Street called Helborn Hill [..] so happened that the said Edward Hall< no role > accidentally casually
and by misfortune fell to and upon the ground and against the Stone Pavement there by means
whereof he the said Edward Hall< no role > did then and there receive one mortal fracture and continue
in and upon the back part of the head of him the said Edward Hall< no role > of which said mortal Fracture
and contusion he the said Edward Hall< no role > from the said twenty sixth day of February in the year
aforesaid until the twenty seventh day of the same month of February in the same year
as well as the said Parish of Saint Bartholomew the less in the ware aforesaid did longuish
and Languishing did live on which said twenty seventh day of February in the year aforesaid at
the Parish and Ward aforesaid in London aforesaid the said Edward Hall< no role > of the said Mortal fracture [..]
and contusion did die And to the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said
Edward Hall< no role > in manner aneley the means aforesaid was accidentally killed. For Witness
whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Nicholas Gainsford< no role > the foreman of the said Jurors on behalf
of himself and the rest of his follows in their Presence have to this Inquisition set their hands
And Seals the day year and place four above written.

Nichs Gainsford< no role > [mark] Foreman




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