City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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4th January 1772 - 30th December 1772

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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 at Parish of St. George Hanover Square
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Fourth day of April in the Twelfth 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
Cuthbert Cousins< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Benjamin
Moore
< no role > , Charles Parker< no role > , Tall Scott< no role > , John Draper< no role > , John Lesaver< no role > , William Mansfield< no role > , George
Clarke
< no role > , Richard House< no role > , John Knowles< no role > , William Anderson< no role > , Anthony Romano< no role > ,
William Menzies< no role > and William Mitchell< 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 Cuthbert Cousins< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say That the said Cuthbert Cousins< no role > (suspected
to have died of a large Wound which he the said Cuthbert Cousins had
given unto himself in and upon the Forepart of his Neck and Windpipe)
on the Third day of April in the Year aforesaid, departed this Life, by
the Visitation of God in a Natural Way, at the said Parish of St.
George Hanover Square within the Liberty and County aforesaid.
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said
Benjamin Moore< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors, on he 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
Benjn. Moore< no role > Foreman




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