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

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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. John the Evangelist in the City of Westminster within the Liberty of
the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster in the County of
Middlesex , the Fourth day of April 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 Thomas
Wrightson
< no role > , then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of Richard Knight< no role > , Harry
Louder
< no role > , William Franklin< no role > , Alexander Marr< no role > , Robert Smith< no role > , Jonathan Marriot< no role > ,
Joshua Twickell< no role > , John Brooks< no role > , Benjamin Cockin< no role > , James Grant< no role > , John Fowler< no role > and John Hughson< 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 Thomas Wrightson< no role > , Came to his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the
said Thomas Wrightson< no role > on the Third day of April in the year aforesaid was found
Drowned and Suffocated in the River Thames , in a certain place called MIll Bank,
in the Parish aforesaid wtihin the City Liberty and County aforesaid, That the said
Thomas Wrightson< no role > had [..] nce appearing to Body, but he or
by what Means he became Drowned and Suffocated, no Evidence thereof doth
appear to the said Jurors. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as
the said Richard Knight< 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 .

Richd. KnightForeman




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