City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
CW | IC

2nd January 1767 - 30th December 1767

About this document type

Currently Held: Westminster Abbey Muniment Room

LL ref: WACWIC652070459

Image 459 of 72317th July 1767


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 Clement Danes , within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter
of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster in the County of Middlesex , the Seventeenth
Day of Julyin 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 Saith 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 a Female Infant Child then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of William
Dorrell
< no role > , Dod Cooke< no role > , Humphrey Lloyd< no role > , Bryan Dawson< no role > , John Parkin< no role > Luke Jones< no role > , Benjamin Newman< no role > , Giles Savage< no role > , John
Short
< no role > , Alexander Mackie< no role > , William Sterck< no role > and Thomas Smith< 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 Female Infant Childcame to her Death, do upon their Oath,
say, that the said Female Child on the Fourteenth day of July in the Year aforesaid was
found Dead in a certain Court called Star Court, situate and being in the Parish
aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, That no Marks of Violence
appeared on the said Female Child, and that the said Female Child departed the
Life by the Visitation of God in a natural Way, and not by any violent Means or
Manner whatsoever. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the
said William Dorrell< no role > 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 > [mark] Coroner

Willm. [mark] Darrell
Foreman




View as XML