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

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Image 404 of 7799th 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 Thomas Jones< no role > the Sign of the Bricklayers Arms in duke Street Grosor. Square
in 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 ninth 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 Thomas Linch< no role > an Infant then and there
lying dead, upon the Oath of the several Jurors 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 Thomas Linch< no role > came to h is Death, do upon
their Oath say that the said Thomas as Linch on the eighth day of
July in the year aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty
aforesaid being leaning out of a certain Window in a
two pair of Stairs Room in a certain House situate in
Bird Street It so happened that accidentally
casually and by Misfortune. he the said Thomas
Linch
< no role > from and out of the said Window into land
against the Stone Pavement of the Area belonging to
the said House situate in Bird Street, as aforesaid, did
fall: By Means where of hathe said Thomas Linch< no role >
did then and there receive divers mortal Wounds & Bruises on
the head of him the said Thomas Linch< no role > ; Of which said mortal
wounds and Bruises he the said Thomas Linch< no role > then and
was tantly died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath
aforesaid do say, that, the said Thomas Linch< no role > in manner and
by the Means aforesaid, accidentally casually and by Mis-
-fortune 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 first above written.

Anthy. Gell< no role >
Coroner }
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Danl. Kennedy< no role > [mark]
Ellis Anwyl< no role > [mark]
John Wrighth< no role > [mark]
James Price< no role > [mark]
Rd. Thatcker< no role > [mark]

James Wiseman< no role > [mark]
Alexander Bayers< no role > [mark]
Joshua Edwards< no role > [mark]
Joseph Wieght< no role > [mark]
Thos Dixon< no role > [mark]
John Blackey< no role > [mark]
J: Conothy [mark]

Jas. Brittain< no role > [mark]
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