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 James
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 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
Elizabeth Grady< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of James Butler< no role > ,
Joseph Hanshaw< no role > , Elizah Bissell< no role > , Daniel Ingman< no role > , Anthony Reed< no role > , Richard Ash< no role > , Edward
Lernox
< no role > , John Shephard< no role > , Charles Kelley< no role > , John Costale< no role > , William Pervin< no role > , Thomas Winter< no role > ,
Thomas Turner< no role > and Edward Multcaster< 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 Means the said Elizabeth Grady< no role > came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Elizabeth Grady< no role > on the Twentieth day
of August in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid being hanging some wet
Linner out to day on Chair Poles laid across some wooden supports on the Leads of the Top of her Dwelling House
situate in Angel Court in the Parish Liberty and County aforesaid and there being no Breast Rail on that part
of the said Leads where the said Elizabeth Grady< no role > then was, it so happend that accidentally casually and by
Misfortune one of the said Wooden Supports of no Value gave way and fell to the Ground by reason whereof
she the said Elizabeth Grady< no role > did then and there accidentally casually and by Misfortune fell from the said Leads
into the said Count putching in her said fall on the Door of a Necessary House in the said Court by means whereof she the
[..] receiver by the [..] foresaid one or more mortal [..] to wit
her Collar Bone broke and also her Right Aron broke in two places of which said mortal Bruises and Fractures she the
said Elizabeth Grady< no role > at the Parish of Saint George Hanover Square in the Liberty and County aforesaid to wit at Saint
George's Hospital at Hyde Park coroner being there instanly carried in about the space of half on Hour Died. And
to the Jurors aforesaid upo their Oath aforesaid do say that the said Elizabeth Grady< no role > in mannor and by the means
aforesaid accidentally casually and by Misfortune came to her Death and not otherwise. In Witness where of
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 se their Hands and Seals the Day Year and as the Place first above mentioned

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

James Butler< no role > Foreman




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