City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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2nd January 1767 - 30th December 1767

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Image 221 of 72313th April 1767


City & Liberty of Westmr.
in the County of
Middlesex , To wit.}


In Inquisition indented taken for Our Sovereign Lord the KING at the Parish of St. George Hanover Square within the
Liberty of Westminster in the County of Middlesex the Thirteenth Day of April in the Seventh 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, Etc. before Thomas Prickard< no role > Gentleman Coroner of Our said Lord the
KING, for the said City & liberty on View of the Body of John Patrick< no role >
then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Edward Jay< no role > , John Jones< no role > ,
Abraham White< no role > , Valentine Knight< no role > , Bernard Gregory< no role > , John Lewis< no role > , William
Green
< no role > , William Greenhalgh< no role > , William Gibson< no role > , Alexander Black< no role > , Edward Taylor< no role > , and
John Edwards< no role > ,
good and lawful Men of the said liberty, duly chosen as by law is required, and who being then and there duly sworn and charged to enquire
for Our said Lord the KING, when, how, and by what Means the said John Patrick< no role >
came to h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said John Patrick< no role > on the Eleventh day of April in
the Year aforesaid, died suddenly in a certain place called Berkley Square situate and
being in the said Parish of St. George Hanover Square within the Liberty and County
aforesaid, That no Marks of Violence appeared on the Body of the said John Patrick< no role > ,
And that the said John Patrick< no role > died by the Visitation of God in a natural Way, and not
by any Hurt or Injury received from any Person whatsoever, to the Knowledge of the said
Jurors. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Edward Jay Foreman
of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his 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

Edwd. Jay Foreman




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