City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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14th February 1760 - 31st December 1760

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Westminster City and Liberty
in the County of Middlesex }
to wit

An Inquisition Indented and taken at the Parish of
St. Margaret in the City of Westminster within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate
Church of St. Peter at Westminster the Seventeenth day of March in the thirty third Year of the Reign
of our Sovereign Lord George the second by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland
King Defender of the faith and so forth, and in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven hundred
and Sixty . Before John Feary< no role > Coroner for our Sovereign Lord the King for the City
and Liberty of Westminster aforesaid. Upon a Veiw of the Body of a Man unknown then and
there lying Dead by the Oaths of George Darley< no role > , George Lyall< no role > , George King< no role > , Edward Stephens< no role > , John
Parbury
< no role > Henry Peak< no role > , Richard Larkin< no role > , William Rankin< no role > , Henry Callis< no role > , Thomas Clarke< no role > , Thomas Cooper< no role >
John Gardner< no role > , Richard James< no role > , John Grammen< no role > , John Count< no role > and John Rush< no role >
Good and Lawfull Men of the said City and Liberty who being
Sworn and Charged to Inquire for our Sovereign Lord the King how when where and in what
manner the said Man unknown came to his Death. Say upon their Oaths, That on Monday
the Fourteenth day of April Instant the said Man unknown [..] King Street in the
Parish Liberty and County aforesaid about Seven o'Clock in the Evening of the same Day and
being Antient and Weak in Body did suddenly by the Visitation of God dye a Natural Death
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oaths aforesaid do say that the aforesaid Man
unknownin manner aforesaid and by no Violent means whatsoever came to his Death
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the Foreman of the Jurors aforesaid have
hereunto put their hands and Seals the day Year and at the place abovesaid

Jno. Feary< no role > Coroner

George Daley< no role > Foreman




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