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 Martin in the Feilds within
the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster the Twenty fourth 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 Frances 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 Patrick Cane< no role > then and there lying Dead, by the Oaths of Christopher Pinchbeck< no role > , John Showord< no role > , James Oliphant< no role > ,
William Davis< no role > , Henry Rymer< no role > , William Howell< no role > , William Purdy< no role > , Ellis Pugh< no role > , James Bright< no role > , Gaven Sheils< no role > , John Waymar< no role > , George
Drew
< no role > , Robert Robson< no role > , Jacob Fry< no role > , and James Chapman< 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 Patrick Cane< no role > came to his Death, Say upon their Oaths, That on Sunday the twenty second day of February
Instant the said Patrick Cane< no role > being at his lodgings at the House of Mr. John Read< no role > the Sign of the two Chairman scituate the
corner of Warwich Street in the Parish of St. Martin in the Feilds in the Liberty and County aforesaid, did then and there by
the Visitation of God Dye a Natural Death, And so the said Jurors aforesaid upon then Oaths aforesaid so say That then said
Patrick Cane< no role > the Day and Year aforesaid in the Parish Liberty and County aforesaid by the Visitation of God did then and there
Dye a Natural Death, 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 abovesaid.

Jno. Feary< no role > Coroner .

Chripr Pinchbeck< no role > Foreman




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