City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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1st January 1781 - 29th December 1781

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Image 439 of 52519th October 1781


John Sidwell< no role > Apprentice to Thomas Gray< no role >
of St. Martins Lane Butcher on his Oath
saith That last Night about half after Nine
o'Clock Dept. rode his Master's Mare into
the Stable Yard belonging to the Golden Cross
Charing Cross to Water, Says that while
the Mare was drinking Dept. heard some
Water fall down [..] soon after something
fell down which lumped upon the Paven [..]
near him but [..] being dark Dept. could not
sea what it was tho if looked White Says that his Mare
was frightened and went away with him,
Says that he did not then return but was
told that Weight that the Deced had faller
out of a Hayloft and was dead.

John Sidwell< no role >

Henry Jarvis< no role > of May's Buildings Surgeon
on his Oath, That he was fetched last Night
to the Parish Wark house where the Deced
had been removed, and there found the
Deced dead, That he Examined the Deced's
Head and on the back part of it found a
Contusion, which Dept. believes to be the
cause of the Deced's death.

Henry Jarvis< no role >

Severally Sworn the Day
Year & Place abovementioned
before me.
Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner }




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