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 James
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter of Westminster the Sixteenth
day of February 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 Thomas Ellis< no role > then and there Lying Dead by the Oaths of John
Ellen
< no role > , Michael Hebord< no role > , John James< no role > , Joseph William< no role > , James Fitzpatrick< no role > George William< no role > , Matthew Wall< no role > , Joseph Fisher< no role >
James Tregent< no role > , John Russell< no role > , John Philpol< no role > , Stephen Weaven< no role > , William Rankin< no role > , Henry Ottley< no role > , William Paul< no role > , Nicholas
Berry
< no role > , William Morrall< no role > , James Young< no role > , and John Moore< 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 Thomas Ellis< no role > came to his Death, say upon their Oaths That on Friday the thirteenth day of
this Instant February the said Thomas Ellis< no role > being in the Parish Liberty and County aforesaid by the Visitation of God
of a Fever then and there did Dye a Natural Death, And so the said Jurors upon their Oaths aforesaid do say that
the said Thomas Ellis< no role > the day and Year aforesaid in the Parish, Liberty and County aforesaid in manner and from
aforesaid by his Death came and not otherwise In Witness whereof as well 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 abovementioned

Jno. Feary< no role > Coroner

John Ellit< no role > Foreman




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