City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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9th January 1794 - 27th December 1794

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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 House of Wm. Hinton< no role > Sign of the black Lyon in Charles Court Hungerford Market , Parish of St. 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 tenth day of January 1794 in the thirty fourth
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 Elizabeth Holmes< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of the several Jurors where Names 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 Elizabeth Holmes< no role > came to
his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Elizabeth Holmes< no role > on the ninth day of
January in the year aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty aforesaid To Wit
on the [..] River Thames there being in a certain House which floats on the said
River, It so happened that accidentally, casually and by misfortune she the
said Elizabeth Holmes< no role > out of the said House into the said River did fall and in the
Waters thereof then and there was suffocated and drowned of which said
Suffocation & Drowning she the said Elizabeth Holmes< no role > then and
there instatly died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath
aforesaid, do say, that the said Elizabeth Holmes< no role > in manner and by
the mean aforesaid accidentally casually and by misfortune, came to her
Death and not otherwise, In Witness whereof as well the
said Coroner as the said Jurors have to [..] Inquisition set
their hands & Seals the day year & Place first above written.

Anthy Gell< no role >
Coroner }

James Bussell< no role > foreman
James Chalmers< no role >
Samuel Andrew< no role >
Geo Murphy< no role > [..]
William Mile< no role > [..]

The [mark] Mark
of Wm. Dimont< no role >

The [mark] Mark
of John Arr< no role >
John Mitchell< no role >
George Wilson< no role >
George Brown< no role >

Thos. Dowle< no role >
John Telfer< no role >
Richard Brand< no role >




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