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

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Image 393 of 68614th July 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 Westminster
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of
St. Peter Westminster in the County of Middlesex , the Fourteenth day of
July 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 Thomas
Fisher
< no role > then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of Lewis Sulsh< no role > , Benjamin Virtue< no role >
James Surridge< no role > , Christopher Latimore< no role > , William Porter< no role > , Josias Dwight< no role > , Daniel Rainbow< no role >
James Wood< no role > , John Dodd< no role > , William Pepper< no role > , John Stone< no role > , Samuel Young< no role > and Ralph Woodman< no role >
good and lawfull Men of the said Liberty duly chosen, who being them and
there duly Sworn and Charged to inquire for our said Lord the King when, how,
and by what means the said Thomas Fisher< no role > Came to his Death, do
upon their Oath say, That the said Thomas Fisher< no role > on the Twelfth day of July
in the Year aforesaid, died suddenly in the Street, to wit, in Petty France in the Parish
aforesaid within the City Liberty and County aforesaid, that no Marks of Violence
appeared on the Body of the said Thomas Fisher< no role > , And that the said Thomas Fisher< no role >
died by the Visitation of God in a natural Way, and not by any hurt or Injury
received from any Person or Persons to the Knowledge or Notice of the said Jurors
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Lewis Sulsh< 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 abovewritten

Tho Prickard< no role > Coroner
Lewis Sulsh< no role > Foreman




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