City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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3rd January 1766 - 29th December 1766

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Image 82 of 6866th February 1766


City on Liberty of Westminster
on the County of Middlesex , to Wit}


An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign
Lord the King at the Parish of Saint Ann 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 for the said City and Liberty on view of the Body of
Margaret Dickson< no role > then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of Benjamin Gee< no role > , Thomas Dobson< no role > , William
Connoway
< no role > , James Empson< no role > Paul Callard< no role > , Joseph Ellerbeck< no role > , Thomas Bramwell< no role > , John Anderson< no role > , Joseph Barber< no role >
Stephen Bramston< no role > , John Manytharp< no role > , Henry Hawkins< no role > , John Henderson< no role > , John Sommerfell< no role > , John Battersby< no role > , William Barber< no role >
Thomas Thompson< no role > , Charles Freeman< no role > , Andrew Michell< no role > , James Rackstrow< no role > , John Brooks< no role > , and William Holmes< 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 Margaret Dickson< no role > Came to her Death, doupon
their Oath say, That on the Fifth day of February in the Year aforesaid (about one of
the Clock in the Morning) the said Margaret Dickson< no role > , being Intoxicated with Liquor,
in a certain Street called Cranborne Street in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty
County aforesaid, and was from thence taken to the Watchhouse of the said Parish of St.
Ann , by the Watchman thereof to be taken care of, and preserved from the Incle [..]
of the Wether; And that the said Margaret Dickson< no role > on the said Fifth day of February in
the same Year, in the said Watchhouse, at the Parish Liberty and County aforesaid,
departed this life, by the Visitation of God, in a natural way: and not by any Hurtor
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 Benjamin Gee< 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 > Coroner .

Benjn Gee< no role > Foreman




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