City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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9th January 1769 - 27th December 1769

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Image 61 of 49721st February 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 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 first day of February 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
Jane< no role > the Wife of Thomas Rogers< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of William
Hutton Clendon
< no role > , Richard Jackson< no role > , Philip Daw< no role > , Solomon Moxey< no role > , Robert Thatcher< no role > , William
Garrick
< no role > , William Rothwell< no role > , Paul Vigne< no role > , Edward Cane< no role > , William Seare< no role > ,
James Pollard< no role > and John Sutter< 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 Jane Rogers< no role > came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Jane Rogers< no role > (suspected to have
been Murdered) on the Eighteenth day of February in the Year aforesaid
at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid, died by the
Visitation of God in a natural Way, and not by any Hurt or Injury
received from the said Thomas Rogers< no role > her Husband, or any other
Person, to the Knowledge of the said Jurors. In Witness whereof
as well the said Coroner, as the said William Hutton Clendon Foreman
of the said Jours, 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 .

W H ClendonForeman




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