City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
CW | IC

4th January 1771 - 26th December 1771

About this document type

Currently Held: Westminster Abbey Muniment Room

LL ref: WACWIC652110164

Image 164 of 6482nd May 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. 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 Second day of May 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
John Warner< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of John Winde< no role >
Thomas Bendall< no role > , James Frazer< no role > , William Miles< no role > , Thomas Henson< no role > , David
Wishart
< no role > , Richard Headington< no role > , William Butler< no role > , James Margeram< no role > , Daniel
Eichhorn
< no role > , Joel Benfield< no role > , William Rice< no role > , William Cole< no role > , William Tate< no role > , John Owen< no role > , David White< no role > ,
Thomas Dreadcraft< no role > and John Lender< 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 James Warner< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said James Warner< no role > on the First day of
May in the Year aforesaid was found drowned and Suffocated in the
River Thames , to Wit, at Hungerford Stairs in the Parish aforesaid
within the Liberty and County aforesaid, that the said James Warner< no role >
had no Marks of Violence appearing on his Body, but how or by what
Means he became Drowned and Suffocated, no Evidence thereof doth
appear to the Jurors. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner,
as the said John Winde< 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

John Winde< no role > Foreman




View as XML