City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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14th January 1764 - 24th December 1764

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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. George Hanover Square within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of
the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster in the County of Middlesex , the Ninth day of April in,
the fourth 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 John Marshall< no role > then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of Mark Wareup< no role > James
Moore
< no role > , Paul Webster< no role > , James Fryer< no role > , John Kendall< no role > , Thomas Wyld< no role > , John Horrobin< no role > , George Goodall< no role > ,
John Stephens< no role > , Thomas Slack< no role > , James Watkins< no role > , John Kitcley< no role > , Robert Constable< no role > , Thomas Bevan< no role >
Benjamin Shelton< no role > , Thomas Morris< no role > , Morris Rice< no role > , and William Meeres< 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 John Marshall< no role > came to
his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said John Marshall< no role > on the Eighth day of
April in the Year aforesaid and for a long time before, did labor and languish under
a grievous Disease of Body, to wit, an Asthma; And that on the said Eighth day of April
in the Year aforesaid, the said John Marshall< no role > being Walking along in a certain Street
called Charles Street in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid,
Andthat the said John Marshall< no role > then and there suddenly 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; No Marks
of Violence appearing on the Body of the said John Marshall< no role > . In Witness where of
as well the said Coroner, as the said Mark Wareup< no role > 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

Mark Warcup< no role > [mark] Foreman




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