City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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3rd January 1766 - 29th December 1766

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City and Liberty of Westminster
in the County of Middlesex , to Wit}


An Inquisition Indented for our Sovereign Lord
the King at the Parish of Saint Margaret in the City of Westminster within the
Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster
in County of Middlesex , the Eighth day of March in the Sixth 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 >
Gentleman Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty
on view of the Body of John Gold< no role > then and there lying Dead upon the Oath of
John Doughty< no role > , Henry Friday< no role > , James Dunn< no role > , John Darippey< no role > , Samuel
Webb
< no role > , Robert Bray< no role > , John Banks< no role > , Silvester Freeman< no role > , William Whitehead< no role >
George Hewett< no role > , Robert Gildon< no role > , and John Lomus
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 John Gold< no role > Came to his Death, do upon their Oath say That,
the said John Gold< no role > on the first day of March (at Night) in the Year aforesaid, being walking
in a certain Place called three boney Walk, in the Parish of St. Mary Lambeth , in the County
of Surry, It so happened that the said John Gold< no role > Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune
did then and there fall upon and over a quantity of Bricks and Rubbish, being part of an
old Brick Wall, lying in the footway, by reason whereof he the said John Gold< no role > did then and there
Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune receive one mortal Fracture in and upon the Right Arm of
him the said John Gold< no role > near his Body, of which said mortal Fracture he the said John Gold< no role > from the said
first day of March in the Year aforesaid, until the Seventh day of the same Month and Year, at the
Westminster Hospital , in the Parish of St. Margaret within the City Liberty and County aforesaid,
did languish and languishing did live, on which said Seventh day of March in the Year
aforesaid, he the said John Gold< no role > at the Hospital aforesaid , of the said Mortal Fracture, did die.
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid, do say that the said John Gold< no role > in
Manner and by the Means aforesaid, Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune, came to
his Death, and not otherwise. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the
said John Doughty< 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 abovewritten

Tho Prickard< no role > Coroner

Jno Doughty< no role > Foreman




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