City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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8th January 1762 - 20th December 1762

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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 Parish of Saint Jamesin the Liberty of Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church
of St. Peter at Westminster , the Twenty Ninth day of May in the Second 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 Thomas Prickard< no role > Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and
Liberty, on View of the Body of a Mary< no role > the Wife of Wm. Evans< no role > ,then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of
James Wilde< no role > , Elisha Dobric< no role > Joseph Jarvis< no role > George Garrad< no role > Henry Sudbury< no role > William Harland< no role > John Hill< no role > Jacob Vals< no role > Samuel Chilver< no role >
Richard Graces< no role > Edmund Hayes< no role > James Winchfield< no role > Richard Puttman< no role > Mintin Cook< no role > Andrew Moore< no role > Richard Bullock< no role >
John Street< no role > Robert Abington< no role > , good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, 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
Mary Evans< no role > came to her Death, Do upon their Oath say, That the said Mary Evans< no role >
labouring under violent Pains and Disorder in her Head, and by reason of the Violence thereof, being
delirious and out of the Mind, on the Twenty eighth day of May in the Year aforesaid, from and out of a
certain two pair of Stairs Window then and there being in the Chamber or Apartment of her said Mary
Evans
< no role > in her own Dwelling House situate in King Street in the Parish aforesaid, in the Liberty and
County aforesaid, to the Ground did violently cast and throw herself, to and against the Stone Pavement
in the back Yard belonging to the said House, by Means whereof she the said Mary Evans< no role > , so Delicious and
out of her Mind as aforesaid , did then and there receive one Mortal Fracture upon the Skull of her the said
Mary Evans< no role > , on the back part of her Head near the right side, of which said Mortal Fracture she the said
Mary Evans< no role > then and there instantly Dyed; And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that
the said Mary Evans< no role > in manner and by the Means aforesaid, being delicious and out of her Mind as aforesaid
by reason of the violence of the Pains aforesaid, did hill Herself. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner
as the said James Wilde< no role > foreman, on the behalf of himself and the rest of the said Jurors, in their
presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day Year and Place abovementioned.

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

Jam. Wilde< no role > foreman




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