City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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1st January 1770 - 26th December 1770

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Image 49 of 55718th January 1770


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 Eighteenth day of January in the Tenth 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
John Saunders< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of William
Chambers
< no role > , John Dunston< no role > , John Brown< no role > , William Mackenzie< no role > , John Caster< no role > ,
William Rothwell< no role > , Thomas White< no role > , Alexander Watson< no role > , John Poltro< no role > , George
Clew
< no role > , Richard Cudmore< no role > , William Wright< no role > , William Ward< no role > , James Scott< no role > , Cornelius
Riley
< no role > , and Joseph Thackaray< 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 John Saunders< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said John Saunders< no role > (suspected to
have been Murdered) on the Thirteenth day of January in the Year
aforesaid, at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid
departed this Life, by the Visitation of God, in a natural Way, and
not by any Hurt or Injury received from any Person whatsoever
to the Knowledge of the said Jurors. In Witness whereof as well
the said Coroner, as the said William Chambers< 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
Wm Chambers< no role > Foreman




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