City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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14th January 1764 - 24th December 1764

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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 Ann , within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of
the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster in the County of Middlesex the Twenty
Ninth day of May in the Fourth 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
and so forth before Thomas Prickard< no role > Gentleman Coroner of Our said Lord the King
for the said City and Liberty, On View of the Body of Mary Baily< no role > an infant then and
there lying Dead, upon the Oath of John Moorman< no role > , John Hudson< no role > , George Grig< no role > , Sampson Hackett< no role > Samuel Tilt< no role > , John
Dessart
< no role > , Henry Heitland< no role > , William Askew< no role > , Lewis Flaston< no role > , George Buckie< no role > , John Hackcroft< no role > , Samuel Snow< no role > , John Hathorn< no role >
Hugh Thomas< no role > , James Smeaton< no role > , William Smith< no role > , Stephen Mitchel< no role > & Charles Scott< no role > , good and lawful Men of the said Liberty
duly chosen 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 Baily< no role > came to her Death
do upon their Oath say, That on the Twenty third day of May in the Year aforesaid the said Mary Bailey< no role > being playing with her Sister Elizabeth Baily< no role >
on the inside of a Window upon the Stair case in the dwelling House of Robert Roberts< no role > situate and
being in a certain Court called St. Ann's Court at the said Parish of St. Ann within the Liberty
and Country aforesaid, And the lower part of the Sash of the said Window being put up, It so
happened that Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune the said Mary Baily< no role > fell out of and
through the said Window, into and upon the backyard adjoining to the said House, which was
paved with Stone, whereby the said Mary Baily< no role > did then and there, by the said fall, receive on
Mortal Fracture on the back part of her Head, of which said Mortal Fracture she the said Mary
Baily
< no role > from the said Twenty third day of May in the Year aforesaid until the Twenty sixth day
of the same Month and Year, at the said Parish Liberty and County did languish and languishing
did live, On which said Twenty sixth day of May in the Year aforesaid the said Mary Baily< no role > at the Parish
Liberty and County aforesaid, of the said Mortal Fracture, did Dye. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their
Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said Mary Baily< no role > in Manner and by the Means aforesaid Accidentally
Casually and by Misfortune came to her Death, and not otherwise. In Witness whereof as well the
said Coroner, as the said John Moorman< no role > 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.

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner .

Jno. Moorman< no role > Foreman




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