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. 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 Thirty first day of December 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
Elizabeth Flockton< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of William
Carpenter
< no role > , Joseph Batty< no role > , William Parker< no role > , Robert Collins< no role > , John Arnold< no role > , John Royal< no role > , James Duff< no role > , Edward
Mackanny
< no role > , John Lewis< no role > , Lumsden Christison< no role > Eliza Whitlock< no role > , Thomas Haw< no role > , Henry Jordan< no role > , James Flanagan< no role > ,
Thomas Smith< no role > , John Guthrie< no role > and Henry Farrell< 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 Elizabeth Flockton< no role > came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say That the said Elizabeth Flockton, late the Wife of
John Flockton< no role > , on the Twenty ninth day of December in the Year aforesaid,
and for several days before, at the said Parish of St. Martin in the Fields
within the Liberty and County aforesaid, did labor and languish under
a grievous Disease of Body, to Wit, a Billions Fever; And that on the said
Twenty ninth day of December in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish aforesaid
within the Liberty and County aforesaid, she the said Elizabeth Flockton< no role >
departed this Life, by the Visitation of God in a natural Way, of the Disease
and Distemper aforesaid, and not by any Hurt or Injury received from
the said John Flockto [..] Husband or any other [..] to the Knowledge
of the said Jurors. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner
as the said William Carpenter< 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
abovewritten

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner .

William [mark] Carpenter< no role >
Foreman




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