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

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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 James
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Twenty ninth 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
a new born Female Child then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Barnard
Jackson
< no role > , George Stayton< no role > , William Richardson< no role > , William Howe< no role > , Philip
Birkin yonge
< no role > , Richard Fuller< no role > , Joseph Powell< no role > , Edward Griffith< no role > , Richard Blackburn< no role > ,
John Minshell< no role > , John Dee< no role > , Joseph Robinson< no role > , John Ward< no role > , Moses Phillips< no role > , Michael
Hughes
< no role > and Jonathan Brewster< 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 Female Child came to
h er do upon their Oath say That on the Twenty seventh day of January
in the year aforesaid, between the Hours of Eight and Nine in the Evening,
the said new born Female Child was found dead in a Flag Basket in
Swallow Street in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County
aforesaid, That no Marks of Violence appeared on the Body, and that
the said Female Child departed this Life soon after the Birth in a
natural Way. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the
said Barnard Jackson 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
Barnd Jackson< no role > Foreman




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