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

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Image 418 of 50523rd October 1764


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 St. Martin in the Fields Within the Liberty of the Dean and
Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster in the County of Middlesex , the
Twenty third day of October 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 so forth before Thomas Prichard< no role > Gentleman Coroner of our said Lord the King
for the Said City and Liberty on View of the Body of Michael Jermine< no role > then and there lying
Dead, upon the Oath of Francis younger< no role > , Charles Buston< no role > , Charles Smith< no role > , Jonathan
Collins
< no role > , John Patton< no role > , Solomon Moxsey< no role > , Alexander Watson< no role > , William Williams< no role > ,
William Prosser< no role > , Andrew Laird< no role > , Alexander Clark< no role > , Robert Ealing< 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 Michael Jermine [..]
to his Death, do upon their Oath say, That on the Nineteenth day of October in the Year aforesaid
the said Michael Jermine a Bricklayer being at Work in repairing a House Situate and being
in a Certain Court Called Princes Court in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County
aforesaid, And that the said Michael Jermine being then and there going up a Ladder on the
outside, of the said House, and carrying a piece of Timber on his Shoulder, It so happened that
the said Michael Jermine Accident [..] Casually and by Misfortune did then and there fall of
and from the said Later being three stores high, upon the [..] placement in the said Court, by
Means where of the said Michael Jermine did then and there by the fall aforesaid, receive divers
Mortal Bruises in and upon his Head and Body, of which said Mortal Bruises he the said Michael
Jermine died the same day. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid, do say. that
the said Michael Jermine Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune, in Manner and by
the Means aforesaid, Came to his Death, and not otherwise. In Witness where of as
well the said Coroner, as the said Francis younger< 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 .

Fras: YoungerForeman




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