Middlesex Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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1st May 1781 - 31st December 1799

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An Inquisition indented [..] of Saint [..]
[..] Day of James in the [..]
Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE [..] Grave of God of Great Britain, France and Ireland, KING, Defence of
the Faith, Etc. before Edward Umfreville one of the Coroners of Our said Lord
KING, for the said County, on view of the body of Sarah Stacking otherwise Brown
then and there lying dead, upon the oath of Francis Farmile< no role >
John Bonnald< no role > John Winn< no role > Richard [..] Dickenson< no role > Thomas Thapter< no role >
Richard West< no role > James Soulthorpe< no role > Richard Williams< no role > William Cooper< no role >
James Painmker< no role > John Mason< no role > and Peter Thonfield< no role >

good and lawful Men of the said County duly chosen as by Law required, and 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 Sarah Stacking< no role >
otherwise Brown came to h er Death, Do upon their Oath say, That the said Sarah
Stacking otherwise Brown on the Twenty seventh Day of December in
the Year aforesaid accidentally being endeavouring by Means of a Line
to let herself down from the window of a One Pair of Stairs Room in the
Dwelling House of Margaret Mason< no role > situate in Bridges Street near
Covent Garden It so happened That she the said Sarah Stacking< no role >
otherwise Brown then and there accidentally casually and by Misfortune
fell to the Ground By Means whereof she the said Sarah Stacking< no role >
otherwise Brown then and there received divers mortal Bruises in and
upon the Body of her the said Sarah Stacking otherwise Brown Of which
said Mortal Bruises she the said Sarah Stacking otherwise Brown from
the said Twenty seventh Day of December in the Year aforesaid untill the
Thirtieth Day of the same Month in the same Year Did Languish and
Languishing did Live On which said Thirtieth Day of December in the
year aforesaid she the said Sarah Stacking otherwise Brown at the Parish
aforesaid in the County aforesaid of the Mortal Bruises aforesaid did Die
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say That the said,
Sarah Stacking otherwise Brown in Manner and by the Means aforesaid
accidentally, casually and by Misfortune came to her Death

In Witness whereof, as well as the said Coroner, as the said, Francis Farmilo< no role > the Foreman of
the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows, in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their
Hands and Seals the Day and Year first abovementioned.

E:Umfreville [mark] Coronr.

Fras. Farmilo [mark] Foreman




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