City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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4th January 1768 - 31st December 1768

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City and Liberty
of Westminster
in the County of
Middlesex

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to wit.
An Inquisition Indented, 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 Twenty ninth day of January in the Eighth 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 Woman Unknown then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of James
Morris
< no role > , Job. Prichard< no role > Andrew Carter< no role > , William Wallis< no role > , Yorham Sherlock< no role > ,
Joseph Hall< no role > , Frederick Wawvell< no role > , John Martin Funck< no role > , David Hughes< no role > , Jonathan
Wood
< no role > , James Bennett< no role > , William Green< no role > , Daniel James< no role > , Thomas Day< no role > , Charles
Howard
< no role > , and James Ward< 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 Woman Unknown came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Woman Unknown on the
Twenty eighth day of January in the Year aforesaid, was found
drowned and suffocated in the River Thames , to Wit, at Northumberland
Wharf in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County
aforesaid; that the said Woman unknown had no Marks of violence
appearing on her Body, but how or by what Means she became
Drowned and Suffocated, no Evidence thereof doth appear to the Jurors

In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner , as the said James
Morris
< 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 > Coroner

Jas. Morris< no role > Foreman




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