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

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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 St. Mary le Strand
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Thirty first day of July 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
Rachell Richabe< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Joshua
Bostock
< no role > , William Jack< no role > , William Tonge< no role > , James Allen< no role > , Jonathan Wools< no role > , Benjamin
Brain
< no role > , Charles Simmons< no role > , Abraham Clagg< no role > , Robert Gardner< no role > , William Cook< no role > , William
Johnson
< no role > , Benjamin Griffis< no role > , John Higginbotham< no role > , George Goodall< no role > , William Richardson< no role > , William
Anderson
< no role > , Charles Burnet< no role > and Samuel Coldicoates< 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 Rachell Richabe came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Rachell Richabe (suspected to have
been Murdered) on the said Thirty first day of July in the Year aforesaid, at
the Bell Inn in the Strand within the Parish Liberty and County aforesaid,
where the said Rachell Richabe was a Nightly Lodger, died Luddenly by the
Visitation of God, in a Natural Way, and not by any Hurt or Injury
from Thomas Smith< no role > , or any other Person or Persons whatsoever, to the
Knowledge of the said Jurors. In Witness whereof as well the
said Coroner as the said Joshua Bostock< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors,
on the behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellow, of their presence,
have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals, the Day Year and
Place first above written

Tho Prickard< no role > Corner
Joshua Bostock Foreman




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