City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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3rd January 1798 - 31st December 1798

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Image 683 of 8995th October 1798


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 John Tranfield< no role > the Sign of the Triumphant Chariot in Piccadilly in the Parish
of Saint 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 fifth day of October 1798
in the thirty eighth Year of the Regin 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 Robert Humphrey< no role > 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 Robert Humphrey< no role > came to h is Death, do upon
their Oath say that Robert Humphrey< no role > on or about the twenty fifth day of September
in the year aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty aforesaid water Carrier
To Wit at Little Chelsea being then and there employed in Carrying of water in a
certain Tub It so happened that accidentally casually and by Misfortune
the said Water Tub(being of the Value of Six pence) then and there fell upon
of him the said Robert Humphrey< no role > then and there received a Compound Fracture
of which said Compound Fracture he the said Robert Humphrey< no role > at Saint George's
Hospital did languish and languishing did live untill the third day of OctoberSeptember
at Saint Georges Hospital of the said Compound Fracture he the said Robert
Humphrey
< no role > , did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid
do say that the said Robert Humphrey< no role > 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 first above written.

Anthy. Gell< no role >
Coroner }

Edwd Stephens< no role >
Richard Newell< no role >
Theophellis Dennis< no role >
Henry Gray< no role >
John Watt< no role > ,

Rows Clark
James Morris< no role >
Nathan Bennett< no role >
Robert Bishop< no role >
Jno Chillcott< no role >
Robt: Worrell< no role >
John Hays< no role >

George Dodd< no role >




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