City and Liberty of Westminster
in the County Middlesex
to Wit.}
An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sover
ign Lord the King at the Parish of St. Martin in the Fields
within the
Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St Peter Westminster
in the
County of Middlesex
, the Sixth day of February in the SixthYear 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 forth said City and Liberty, on view of the Body of
a Woman unknown then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
henry Letheby< no role >
,
Thomas Martin< no role >
Daniel Wood< no role >
,
Thomas Byrne< no role >
,
John Haggett< no role >
,
Thomas Turner< no role >
Jacob Shift,
Robert Morrison< no role >
,
Thomas Webster< no role >
Robert Andrews< no role >
Edward Lyle< no role >
,
Garrard barry< no role >
,
john Clarke< no role >
,
Thomas Price< no role >
,
George
Holden< no role >
,
John Wilkinson< no role >
,
John Thompson< no role >
and
Thomas Proby< no role >
good and lawfull Men of the said Liberty duly chosen, who being then and there due
Sworn and Charge to inquire for our said Lord the king, when, now, and by what
means the said Woman Unknowncame to her Death, do upon their oath
say, That the said Woman Unknown on the Fifth day of February in the Year aforesaid
was found Drowned and Suffocated in the River Thomas, to wit, at Hungerford Stairs
, in
the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, That the said Woman
Unknown had no Marks of Violence appearing on her Body, but how or by what
Means she became Drowned and Suffocated, no Evidence there of there of doth appear to
the Jurors. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said Henry
Letheby 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 >
Coroner
Henry Letheby Foreman