City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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7th January 1773 - 28th December 1773

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Image 586 of 75023rd September 1773


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 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 Twenty third day of September 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
Ann Cole< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of James
Crabtree
< no role > , John Poultney< no role > , Henry Churchill< no role > , Francis Noden< no role > , James Pain< no role > John
Macfarlin
< no role > , James Largus< no role > , Robert Stevens< no role > , Edward Ferrett< no role > , James Martin< no role > ,
Francis Carbery< no role > and John Taylor< 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 Ann Cole< no role > came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Ann Cole< no role > (suspected to have
been Murdered) on the Twenty first day of september in the Year
aforesaid died suddenly in a certain Court called Sheppard's Court
in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid,
That the said Ann Cole< no role > departed this life by the Visitation of God
in a natural Way, and not by any Hurt or Violence whatsoever.
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said
James Crabtree Foreman of the said Jurors [..] 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 > [mark] Coroner

James Crabtree< no role > [mark] Foreman




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