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 Saint Annewithin the Liberty of the Dean
and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster in the County of Middlesex
the Twelfth day of May in the Sixth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the
Third by the Grace of God of Great Britain France an 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 Andrew Louch< no role > (Inspected to have been Murder
then and there lying Dead upon the Oath of Stephen Joyce< no role > , Francis Blyde< no role > , Godfrey Ebbell< no role > , Stephen Fryer< no role > , John West< no role > , Richard
Rawlins
< no role > , John Bagnall< no role > , William Poitier< no role > , David Wood< no role > , John Elliot< no role > , Charles Gray< no role > , Jacob Maurer< no role > , John Allison< no role >
Benjamin Hanson< no role > , Richard Pratt< no role > , and Samuel Hance< 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 Andrew Louchcame to his
Death do upon their Oath say. That the said Andrew Louch on the Eleventh day of
May in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish and in the Liberty and County
aforesaid, to Wit, at the Poor house there, departed this Life, by the Visitation
of God, in a Natural Way, and not by any Hurst or Injury received from any
Personwhatsoever, to the Knowledge of the said Jurors In Witness
whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said Stephen Joyce< 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

Ste JoyceForeman




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