Middlesex Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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1st September 1747 - 13th June 1803

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Image 542 of 63215th April 1786


Middlesex
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An Inquisition indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the Dwelling house of Elizabeth Polly known by
the Sign of the Bakers Arms in White Cross Street in the Parish of Saint Luke in the County of Middlesex the Fifteenth
Day of Aprilin the Twenty SixthYear 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
Thomas Phillips< no role > Esquire one of the Coroners of our said Lord the King for the said County on View of
the Body of Ann Rose< no role > then and there lying Dead upon the Oath of Joseph
Banks
< no role > , Samuel Knight< no role > , Richard Maund, Thomas Jones< no role > , Benjamin Castletine< no role > , John Lewis< no role > , James Smith< no role > , James Brown< no role >
John Valentine< no role > , Robert Pollard< no role > , Edward Braubridge William Bonner< no role > , William Coppin< no role > , Ralph Brown< no role > , John Scott< no role >
William Dewey< no role > and William Snow< no role >
good and lawfull Men of the said County duly chosen and who being then and there duly sworn and charged to
inquire for our said Lord the King when how and by what means the said Ann Rose< no role >
came to herDeath do upon their Oath say That Frances Lewis< no role > late of the Parish aforesaid in the County
aforesaid Single Woman , on the Ninth Day of April in the Year aforesaid with force and Arms at the Parish and in the
County aforesaid in and upon the said Ann Rose< no role > in the Peace of God and our said Lord the King then and there being
Feloniously did make and Assault And that she the said Frances Lewis< no role > , with both her Hands her the said Ann Rose< no role >
in and upon the Head Face Back Belly Arms and Wrists of her the said Ann Rose< no role > Violently and Feloniously did
Strike and beat and that the said Frances Lewis< no role > , did also then and there with both her Hands as aforesaid
Violently and Feloniously Cast and throw the said Ann Rose< no role > to the Ground And that the said Frances Lewis< no role >
did then and there as well by such Striking and beating of the said Ann Rose< no role > with both her Hands as aforesaid
as by such Casting and throwing of her the said Ann Rose< no role > to and against the Ground as aforesaid give
unto the said Ann Rose< no role > divers Mortal Bruises in and upon the Head Face Back Belly Arms and Wrists
of her the said Ann Rose< no role > aforesaid of which said Mortal Bruises she the sain Ann Rose< no role > , from the said
Ninth day of April in the year aforesaid untill the thirteenth day of the same Month in the same year at the
Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid did Languish and Languishing did live on which said thirteenth
day of April in the year aforesaid She the said Ann Rose< no role > of the Mortal Bruises aforesaid at the Parish and
in the County aforesaid did die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said
Frances Lewis< no role > her the said Ann Rose< no role > in manner and by the Means aforesaid Violently and Feloniously
did Kill and Hay, against the Peace of our said Lord the King his Crown and Dignity, And that the said
Frances Lewis< no role > at the time of the Committing the Felony aforesaid or at any time Since had not any Goods
or Chattels Lands or tenements within the said County or else where to the Knowledge or Notice of the said
Jurors

In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Joseph Banks< no role >
the Foreman of the said Jurors on the Behalf of himself and the rest of his said Fellows in their Presence
have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the day Year and place first above Written.

Thos. Phillips< no role > [mark] Coroner
Jos Banks [mark] Foreman




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