City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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7th January 1773 - 28th December 1773

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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 George Hanover Square
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Fourteenth day of August in the Thirteenth 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 Burrell< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of William Knight< no role >
John Gee< no role > , Richard Burton< no role > , Charles Williams< no role > , William Parlatt< no role > , Joseph Swain< no role > , Thomas Eagar< no role >
William Littall< no role > , Dodley Bagley< no role > , Leonard Gibbons< no role > , John Stainer< no role > , and Joseph Clark< no role >
good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
chosen, who being then and there duly sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the
King, when, how, and by what by Means the said John Burrell< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say That the said John Burrell< no role > on the Thirteenth day of
August in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid to wit
at Hyde Park going into the Serpentine River there to Bath himself, it so happened
that accidentally casually and by Misfortune he the said John Burrell< no role > was in the Waters
of the said River then and there Suffocated and Drowned, of which said Suffocation and
Drowning he the said John Burrell< no role > then and there instantly Died. And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said John Burrell< 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 Foreman of
the Jurors aforesaid on behalf of himself and the rest of the said Jurors have to this
Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day Year and at the Place abovementioned.

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner
William Knight< no role > [mark] Foreman




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