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

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Image 588 of 72312th October 1767


City and Liberty
of Westminster
in the County of
Middlesex }
to wit.


An Inquisition Intended, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King, at the Parish of Saint Martin in the Fields
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Twelfth day of October 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, 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 New born Male Child then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Francis
Vaughan
< no role > , James Wear< no role > , Thomas Dunn< no role > , Joseph Poynton< no role > , William
Rickard
< no role > , Tobias Williams< no role > , George Grant< no role > , Alexander Hayes< no role > ,
John Law< no role > , Thomas Schutt< no role > , Lewis Royer< no role > , Jacob Wagman< no role > and
James Pawlett< no role > good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
chosen, 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 new born Male Child came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say That the said new born Male Child on the
Eleventh day of October in the Year aforesaid was found dead in
a certain Street called James Street , situate and being in the Parish
aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, That no
Marks of Violence appeared thereupon, and that the said Male
Child died in the Birth, or soon after the Birth, in a natural Way.
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said
Francis Vaughan 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
Frans Vaughan Foreman




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