City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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3rd January 1774 - 20th December 1774

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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 James
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Twenty first day of March in the Fourteenth 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 Charles
Stewart
< no role > , William Scurrah< no role > , Walter Stafford< no role > , Moses Phillips< no role > , Noble Rogers< no role > , George
Statton
< no role > , Edward Lee< no role > , Samuel Collett< no role > , Edmund Brome< no role > , Charles Wetherell< no role > , John Lock< no role > ,
John Frost< no role > and James Grindley< 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
Nineteenth day of March in the Year aforesaid being Intoxicated
and in Liquor, in Saint James's Market situate in the Parish
aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, And that
the said Woman unknown, with the great Quantity of Liquor
which she the said Woman unknown did drink and Swallow,
was then and there Suffocated and Strangled, of which said
Suffocation and Strangling she the said Woman unknown
then and there died. In Witness whereof as well the
said Coroner, as the said Charles Stewart< 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

Charles Stewart< no role > Foreman




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