City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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3rd January 1761 - 19th December 1761

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

An Inquisition Indented and taken at the Parish of Saint St. George Hanover Square
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter at Westminster the Third day of
January in the First 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 and in the Year of our Lord One Thousand
seven Hundred and Sixty one . Before John Feary< no role > Coroner for our Sovereign Lord the King for the City and
Liberty of Westminster aforesaid. Upon a View of the Body of Mary Jaques< no role > then and there Lying Dead by the
[..] James Morris< no role > , William Staten< no role > , Thomas Gibbin< no role > , John [..] Jackson< no role >
John Shaw< no role > , James Lewis< no role > , Thomas Thornthwait< no role > , James Beckett< no role > , Richard Price< no role > , James Moore< no role > , John Jennings< no role >
John Smart< no role > , and George Ayres< 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 Mary Jaques< no role > came to her Death say upon their Oaths
That the said Mary Jaques< no role > on the thirtieth day of December in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and
sixty at the Parish aforesaid in the Liberty and County aforesaid being big with a certain Female Child afterwards
to wit on the some Day and Year at the Parish LIberty and County aforesaid after a violent and lingering Pain
and hard Labour with great difficulty did being forth the said Female Child Stillborn and Dead and the said
Mary Jaques from about Eleven of the Clock of the Evening of the said thirtieth day of December in the Year
aforesaid untill about Twelve of the Clock of the some Evening at the Parish and in the Liberty and County
aforesaid of the Weekness and Disorder occasioned by such Violent and lingering Pain difficult Birth and
hard Labour aforesaid did Languish and Languishing did Live on which said Thirtieth day of December in
the Year aforesaid in the Parish Liberty and County aforesaid she the said Mary Jaques< no role > of the Weekness
and Disorder aforesaid occasioned by the hard Labour and difficult Birth aforesaid did Die, And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said Mary Jaques< no role > in manner and by the means aforesaid
came to her Death and not otherwise. In Witness whereof as welll the said Coroner as the Foreman of the
Jurors aforesaid have to this Inquisition put their hands and Seals the Day Year and at the Place above said

Jno. Feary< no role > Coroner

Henry Spemeley< no role > Foreman




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