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

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Image 453 of 53815th November 1769


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. George Hanover Square within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter
of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster in the County of Middlesex , the Fifteenth
Day of November in the Ninth 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 Margaret Rouvier< no role > then and there lying dead upon the
Oath of Francis Wright< no role > , Robert Page< no role > , James Ashfield< no role > , William Woodward< no role > , Christopher Moor< no role > , Robert William< no role >
Thomas Sadler< no role > , Richard Williams< no role > , James Barnett< no role > , Robert Smith< no role > , George Oakley< no role > , Peter
Rose
< no role > , and John Gano< 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 Margaret Rouviercame to her Death, do upon their Oath
say, That the said Margaret Rouvier on the Fourteenth day of November in the Year
aforesaid was found drowned and Suffocated in a certain Waters Tub, containing therein
a great Quantity of Water, in the Garden adjoining to the Dwelling House of her the said
Margaret Rouvier, situate and being in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and
County aforesaid, that the said Margaret Rouvier had no Marks of Violence
appearing [..] became Browned
and Suffocated, no Evidence thereof doth appear to the Jurors In Witness
whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said Francis Wright< 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

Francis Wright< no role > Foreman




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