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

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Image 254 of 68625th April 1766


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. Margaret in the City of Westmr. within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter
of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster in the County of Middlesex , The Twenty
fifth day of April in the Sixth 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 Elizabeth Guy< no role > then and there lying
dead, upon the Oath of John Kyte< no role > , William Holdsworth< no role > , Joseph Hutchinson< no role > , Owen Hudson< no role > , Humphrey
Goddard
< no role > , William Hodgson< no role > , William Broadhurst< no role > , David Jones< no role > , Joseph Smith< no role > , Samuel Naughan< no role > , John
Burgess
< no role > , Alexander Donold< no role > and John Price< 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 Elizabeth Guy< no role > came to her Death
do upon their Oath say, That the said Elizabeth Guy< no role > on the Twenty fourth day of April in
the Year aforesaid, at the Workhouse , in the Parish aforesaid, within the City Liberty and
County aforesaid, did labor and languish under a grievous Discase of Body, to Wit, A Fever;
And that on the said Twenty fourth day of April in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish and in
the City Liberty and County aforesaid, she the said Elizabeth Guy< no role > departed this Life by
the Ventation of God in a natural [..] Way, and not by any Hurt or Injury received from
any Person or Persons to the Knowledge of the said Jurors. In Witness whereof
as well the said Coroner, as the said John Kyte< 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

Thos. Prickard< no role > Coroner .

John Kyte< no role > Foreman




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