City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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14th January 1785 - 26th December 1785

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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 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 thirty first day of March in the twenty fifth
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 William Carter< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of John Budd< no role > Samuel Prince< no role > , James Conolly< no role > , Thomas
Palmer
< no role > , William Armot< no role > , Robert Phips< no role > , John Stanfield< no role >
William Pitt< no role > , Thomas Peat< no role > , David Robertson< no role > , William
Constable
< no role > , Charles Humphreys< no role > , William Driver< no role > , Patrick
Allen
< no role > and John Wyatt< 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 William Carter< no role > an Infant came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said William Carter< no role > ,
an Infant of the Age of four Years, on the Thirtieth
day of March in the Year aforesaid being in the
Lodging Room or Apartment of Alexander Aberdeen< no role >
in little Suffolk Street in the Parish aforesaid within the
Liberty and County aforesaid, And the said William
Carter
< no role > being at one of the Windows in the said Room,
and the Sash up, It so happened that the said William
Carter
< no role > the Infant then and there Accidentally Casually
and by Misfortune fell out of and through the said
Window, at the height of three Stories, into and upon the
Stone Pavement in the said Street, whereby the said William
Carter
< no role > then and there received a mortal Fracture in and upon
the back part of his Head, of which said Mortal Fracture he the said
William Carter< no role > then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said William Carter< no role > in
Manner and by the Means aforesaid Accidentally Casually and by
Misfortune came to his death. In Witness whereof as well the
said Coroner as the said John Budd< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors
on the behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows, in their
presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals
the Day Year and Place abovementioned.

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

John Budd< no role >
Foreman }




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