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

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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 Saint 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 Nineteenth day of June 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
a New born Female Child then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Joseph
Smith
< no role > , Jeremiah Tool< no role > , David Hogg< no role > , Philip Pool< no role > , Thomas Scott< no role > , John Talmage< no role > Richard James< no role > ,
Robert Grimsey< no role > John Cock< no role > , James Wild< no role > , Benjamin Virtue< no role > , Henry Renshaw< no role > , John Dodd< no role > Thomas
Walker
< no role > , William Roberts< no role > and James Taylor< 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 New born Female Child came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That on the Eighteenth day of June in the
Year aforesaid at the Parish aforesaid within the City Liberty and
County aforesaid Elizabeth Gibbon< no role > did bring forth the said Female
Bastard Child, that no Marks of Violence appeared there upon, and
that the said Female Bastard Child was shill born. In Witness
whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said Joseph Smith< 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 > [mark] Coroner .

Joseph Smith< no role > [mark] Foreman




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