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 Margaret
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Thirtieth day of December in the Thirteenth 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
a Woman unknown then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of James
Barr
< no role > , Thomas Hurton< no role > , Robert Mathews< no role > , John Wynn< no role > , John Lee< no role > , John
Stevens
< no role > , Avery Tyrrill< no role > , William Knight< no role > , Thomas Exton< no role > , Henry List,
William Flowers< no role > and William Butterfield< 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 Woman unknown came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Woman unknown on the
Twenty eighth day of December in the Year aforesaid, was found dead
in a certain Shed or Hovel situate and being in Hyde Park , near unto
Kensington Gate , in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and
County aforesaid, that the said Woman unknown had no Marks of
violence appearing on her Body, but died through the Inclemency
of the Weather, and not by any other Ways or Means whatsoever,
to the Knowledge of the said Jurors. In Witness whereof as well
the said Coroner, as the said James Barr< 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

James Barr< no role > Foreman




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