City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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4th January 1796 - 28th December 1796

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Image 377 of 7794th July 1796


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 the Betty Mc.Kenzie< no role > No 23 in Salisbury Street, Strand 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 fourth day of July 1796
in the thirty sixth 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 Betty Mc. Kenzie then and there
lying dead, upon the Oath of the several Juror whose Names are here under 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 Betty Mc. Kenzie came to h er Death, do upon
their Oath say that the said Betty Mc. Kenzie on the third day
of July in the Year aforesaid being in a certain Boat on the River Thames with
Mr. John Windus< no role > and Cornelius Dyer< no role > a Waterman It
so happened that the said Betty Mc. Kenzie acciden-
tally casually and by Misfortune fell out of the
said Boat into the said River Thames (nearly
opposite to Juke Shore) and in the Waters of the said
River was then and there suffocated and drowned
Of which said Suffocation and Drowning
she the said Betty Mc. Kenzie then and there
instantly died. And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the
said Betty Mc. Kenzie 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 Jurors, have to this Inquisition
set their Hands and Seals the Day, Year, and Place first above written.

Anthy. Gell< no role >
Coroner }
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Jn.. Fentum< no role > [mark]
Wm Jeffs< no role > [mark]
Wm Young< no role > [mark]
Wm Sinson< no role > [mark]
Benjm. Capper< no role > [mark]

Thos Larkin< no role > [mark]
John Bull< no role > [mark]
Thos Davis< no role > [mark]
Jno. Warne< no role > [mark]
Edward Fell< no role > [mark]
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Isaac Bignold< no role > [mark]
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