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 the Parish of Saint Clement Danes
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Eighth day of August 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
Joseph Marsh< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Edward Milbourn< no role >
Giles Savage< no role > , Joseph Sewell< no role > , William Longe< no role > , John Dent< no role > , Benjamin Poole< no role > , Stephen Stephens< no role > , William
Clarke
< no role > , John Hawkins< no role > , Benjamin Newman< no role > , Henry Fellins< no role > , Humphrey Loyd< no role > , Robert Vensent< no role > , Giles
Mathews
< no role > , Richard Haward< no role > , and Henry Lind< no role > le buny
good and lawfull 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 Jacob Marsh< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say

That the said Jacob Marsh< no role > on the Seventh day of
August in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid being
Confined as a Prisoner in the Dwelling Houp of Mr. James Armstrong< no role > an Officer of the
Sheriff of Middlesex situate in Carey Street he the said Jacob Marsh< no role > by the Vicitation
of God departed this Life in a Natural way (to wit) of on Epileptic Fit and not otherwise
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the Foreman of the Jurors, aforesaid
on behalf of himself and the rest of the said Jurors have to this Inquisition set their
Hands and Seals the Day, Year and Place abovementioned.

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner

Ed Milbourn< no role > [mark] Foreman




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