City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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3rd January 1763 - 30th December 1763

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Image 257 of 44113th September 1763


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 Saint Clement Danes within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate
Church of St. Peter Westminster in the County of Middlesex , the thirteenth day of September in the third
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 > Gentleman Coroner
of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of Eleanor Newman< no role > (Suspected to be Murdered)
then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of Thomas Beaty< no role > , Thomas Baine< no role > , John Bentley< no role > , Wilfried Sadler< no role > ,
Charles Scott< no role > , Mathias Fleming< no role > This name instance is in set 2034. , John Morton< no role > , Josiah Varden< no role > , Peter Henry< no role > , Thomas Hall< no role > , James Feltham< no role > , John
Stiles
< no role > , George Dickenson< no role > Gilbert Probert< no role > , Isaac Smith< no role > , William Betney< no role > , John Hicks< no role > , Nathl. Coltman< no role > , George Dawson< no role > , James Wymands< no role > , John Hall< no role >
good and lawfull Men of the said Liberty duly chosen, 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
Eleanor Newman< no role > came to her Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Eleanor
Newman
< no role > on the twelfth day of September in the Year aforesaid, and for a long time before
at the Parish aforesaid, within the Liberty and County aforesaid, being very weak and
infirm: And that on the said twelfth day of September in the Year aforesaid, at the
Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, she the said Eleanor Newman< no role >
departed this Life by the Visitation of God, in a natural Way, to Wit, of her said Ailment
and Infirmity, and not by any violent Means whatsoever, to the Knowledge of the said
Jurors. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said Thomas Beaty< no role >
Foreman of the said Jurors, on behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows, in their
presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals, the Day Year and Place
frist above written

Tho Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner .
Thos [mark] Beaty< no role >
for Man




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