City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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4th January 1771 - 26th December 1771

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Image 130 of 64815th April 1771


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. 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 Fifteenth day of April in the Eleventh 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
Hannah Moors< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Henry
Wilson
< no role > , William Mann< no role > , John Brown< no role > , John Webb< no role > , John Wernicke< no role > , James Don< no role > ,
Leonard Clough< no role > , John Hudson< no role > , William Arnoll< no role > , John Palmer< no role > , Thomas Moone< no role >
and David Lindsley< 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 Hannah Moors came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Hannah Moors on the said
Fifteenth day of April in the Year aforesaid was found drowned and
floating in the Rivers Thames in the Parish aforesaid within the
City Liberty and County aforesaid, That no Marks of Violence
appeared on the Body of the said Hannah Moors, but how or by
what Means she became Drowned and Suffocated, no Evidence thereof
doth appear to the Jurors. In Witness whereof as well the said
Coroner as the said Henry Wilson< 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
Henry Wilson< no role > Foreman




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