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 St. 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 Twentieth sixth day of April 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 Sarah Robinson< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of John Burgan< no role > , Joseph Ole< no role > , William Budge< no role >
James Fryer< no role > , Peter Sisson< no role > , Jonathan Butcher< no role >
Richard Sweet< no role > , William Ashton< no role > , Thomas Walters< no role >
John Dallow< no role > , Thomas Smith< no role > and Alexander
Burne
< 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 Sarah Robinson< no role > came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say That the said Sarah Robinson< no role > on
the Nineteenth day of April in the Year aforesaid being
alone in the Kitchen in the Dwelling House of John Robinson< no role >
situate in Chapel Street in the Parish aforesaid within the
Liberty and County aforesaid It so happened that the
Cloaths which the said Sarah Robinson< no role > then and there
had on her Body Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune
took Fire, by reason whereof the said Sarah Robinson< no role > was
then and there violently Burnt in and upon her Arms Breast
and Stomach, of which said Burning she the said Sarah
Robinson
< no role > from the said Nineteenth day of April until
the Twentieth day of the same Month at the Parish and in
the Liberty and County aforesaid did languish and live,
On which said Twentieth day of April in the Year aforesaid
at the Parish and in the Liberty and County, aforesaid She the
said Sarah Robinson< no role > of the mortal Burning aforesaid
did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesd.
do say, that the said Sarah Robinson< no role > in Manner and by the
Means aforesaid Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune
came to her Death and not otherwise. In Witness whereof
as well the said Coroner as the said John Burgan< 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 .

Jno Burgan< no role > Foreman




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