City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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8th January 1762 - 20th December 1762

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City and Liberty of Westminster
in the County of Middlesex }
to Wit.


An Inquisition indented taken for Our Sovereign Lord the King
at the Parish of St. James in the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegrate Church of St. Peter in
Westminster in the County of Middlesex , the third day of June in the Second 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, before Thomas Prickard< no role > Coroner of Our said Lord the King for the said City and
Liberty, on View of the Body of Matthew Moor (Suspected lately to be Murdered) then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of George
Greathead
< no role > , Edmund Cleve< no role > , Joseph Lovill< no role > , Germin Wright< no role > , Michael Shackwaight< no role > , Joseph Elkins< no role > , Thomas
Palmer
< no role > , James Davies< no role > , Patrick Larecy< no role > , Thomas Richardson< no role > , Simon Penman< no role > Walter Russell< no role > , Henry
Freeman
< no role > , William Sharpless< no role > , Robert Randle< no role > , Samuel Acocks< no role > and Richard Watts< no role > good and lawful Men of
the said Liberty, duly chosen, and who being then and there duly Sworn and charged to inquire for our
Said Lord the King, when, how and by what means the said Matthew Moor< no role > came to his Death, Do upon
their Oath say, That the said Matthew Moor an the Thirty first day of May in the Year aforesaid, was,
and for a long time before, had been Sick and Disordered, at the Parish aforesaid in the Liberty and
County aforesaid; And that on the said Thirty first day of May in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish
aforesaid in the Liberty and County aforesaid. He the said Matthew Moor dyed by the Visitation of
God a Natural Death. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said George
Great head Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his said Fellows,
in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals, the Day Year and
Place abovementioned.

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

Geo: Greathead< no role > Foreman




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