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 }
to wit


An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the
Parish of St. Margaret in the City of Westminster 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 August One Thousand Seven hundred and
Sixty eight 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 Elizabeth Marriott< no role > then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of Robert Salisbury Cotton< no role > , William
Satling
< no role > , William Clissold< no role > , James Grant< no role > , Robert Chisholm< no role > , Thomas Appleby< no role > , John Hudson< no role > , James Douglas< no role > , Richard
Dutton
< no role > , Philip Cool< no role > , Henry Wilson< no role > , Mark Taylor< no role > , and John Watkins< no role >
good and lawfull 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 Elizabeth
Marriott came to her Death do upon their Oath say, That the said Elizabeth Marriott on the Seventeenth day of
August instant in the Year aforesaid in the Parish Liberty and County aforesaid Departed this Life by the Visitation of
God in a Natural Way to wit of a Fit of Apoplecy, and not by any Hurt or Injury received from any Person or
Persons Whatsoever to the Knowledge of the said Jurors. In Witness where of as well the said Coroner as the Foreman
of the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of the said Jurorsofhave to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the day and Year first above written.

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner

R:S: Cotton [mark] Foreman




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