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 Jameswithin the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the
Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster in the County of Middlesex , the Eleventh day
of Septemberin 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 Ann< no role > the Wife of Thomas Dunn< no role > (suspected to have been Murdered
then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of George Mynett< no role > , John Dingwall< no role > , James Lock< no role > , William Wilman< no role >
William Smalley< no role > , James Fry< no role > , Francis Payler< no role > , Peter Viant< no role > , John Thomas< no role > , John Clarke< no role > , George Snowden< no role >
Samuel Smith< no role > , John Pillot< no role > , William Reed< no role > , John Cullis< no role > , Edward Wilson< no role > , John Ridley< no role > , William
Kelly
< no role > , John Jarvis< no role > and John Hamshaw< no role > , good and lawfull Men of the said Liberty duly Chosen
who being than and there duly Sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord the King, when, how
and by what Means the said Ann Dunn< no role > -came to her Death, do upon their Oath say That
the said Ann Dunn< no role > on the Ninth day of September in the Year aforesaid, and for several
days before, at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, did labor and
languish under a grievous Disease of Body, to wit, a Fever, and that on the said Ninth
day of September in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and
County aforesaid, she the said Ann Dunn< no role > departed this Life by the Visitation of God, in a
Natural way, to wit, of the Disease and Distemper aforesaid, and not by any Hurt or
Injury received from the said Thomas Dunn< no role > her Husband, or any other Person to the
Knowledge of the said Jurors In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner
as the said George Mynitt< 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

Geo: Mynitt< no role > Foreman




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