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

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Image 317 of 44120th October 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 Chapel
of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster in the County of Middlesex , the Twentieth
day of October 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 > Gentlemen Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said
City and Liberty, an View of the Body of Margaret Burgis< no role > This name instance is in set 3704. , suspected to have been lately Murdered
and then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of John Challenor< no role > , John Tomlin< no role > , David Goodsman< no role >
James Burks< no role > , William Dudley< no role > , Thomas Morish< no role > , Charles Taylor< no role > , William Stebins< no role > , John Wilton< no role >
William Holway< no role > , John Marsh< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. , William Broughton< no role > , John Bennett< no role > , George Scrivenor< no role > , Benjamin Cornish< no role > , Benjamin
Cornish
< no role > , John Dean< no role > , William Gyblett< no role > , Henry Bennett< no role > , Thomas Monkhouse< no role > , Thorp Pyke< no role > , William Betney< no role > and John Greenwood< 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, how and by what means
the said Margaret Burgiscame to her Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said
Margaret Burgis on the Seventeenth day of October in the Year aforesaid, and for a
long time before, at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid
did labour and languish under a grievous disease of Body, to Wit, a Fever; And that
on the said Seventeenth day of October in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish
aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, She the said Margaret [..]
Burgis departed this Life, by the Visitation of God, in a natural Way, to wit, of the
Disease and Distemper aforesaid, and not by any hurt or injury received from
any Person or Persons whatsoever, to the Knowledge of the said Jurors
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said John Challenor< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. ,
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 first above written

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner .
John Challenor< no role > [mark] foreman




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