City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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5th January 1793 - 30th December 1793

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Image 619 of 80125th September 1793


City and Liberty
of Westminster ,
In the County of
Middlesex .}
to wit,


An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King at the House of Bartholomew Sterling< no role > Sign of the Grange in Carey Street Parish of St. Clement Danes
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the twenty fifth day of Septr. 1793 in the thirty third
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 Anthony
Gell
< no role > , Esq . Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on
View of the Body of Nicholas Mc. Donald< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of the several Jurors whose Name are hereunder written and
Seals affixed

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 Nicholas Mc. Donald came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say that the said Nicholas Mc. Donald sometime past
received a Blow on his head accidentally, that the said Nicholas Mc. Donald
ever since which time in Consequence of an internal Injury sustained
by the said Blow so given accidentally, has laboured under a grievous dis [..]
of Body, which was the Cause of the Death of the said Nicholas Mc. Donald
on the twenty fourth day of September in the year aforesaid
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said
Nicholas Mc. Donald 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 said
Jurors have to this Inquisition set their hands and
Seals the Day, year and Place above written.

Anthy. Gell< no role >
Coroner }
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David Watt< no role >
Forman [mark]

Ch Murrey< no role > [mark]
Wm. Broughton< no role > [mark]
Jno. Elsworth< no role > [mark]
Dod: Cook< no role > [mark]
Saml Baker< no role > [mark]

Josa: Johnston< no role > [mark]
John Bailey< no role > [mark]
John Scott< no role > [mark]
G Liker [mark]
[..] [mark]
Richd. George< no role > [mark]

Rd Dyer< no role > [mark]




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