City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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11th January 1776 - 30th December 1776

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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 Seventeenth day of September in the Sixteenth 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
Jane Blakey< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Richard Cole< no role >
Thomas Hoskins< no role > , Thomas Batrige< no role > , Robert Inelgrove< no role > , Thomas Rett< no role > , George Gardner< no role > ,
John Fike< no role > , Philip Tipper< no role > , Thomas Furneaux< no role > , Harvey Smith< no role > , Thomas Dawson< no role > ,
John Clark< no role > , Joseph Perry< no role > , William Dike< no role > , John Nichols< no role > , Thomas Shurt< no role > , Digory
Masters
< no role > , George Dickenson< no role > , Mathew Hagaston< 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 Jane Blakey< no role > came to
her Death, do upon their Oath say, That Samuel Seymar late of the Parish aforesaid
within the Liberty and County aforesaid Laborer on the Fifteenth day of
September in the Year aforesaid, with Force and Arms at the Parish aforesaid
within the Liberty and County aforesaid in and upon the said Jane Blakey< no role >
in the Peace of God and our said Lord the King then and there being feloniously
did make an Assault, And that the said Samuel Seymar with his Hand her
the said Jane Blakey< no role > in and upon the Right said of the Head of her the said
Jane Blakey< no role > under her right Ear, did then and there feloniously
strike and beat, thereby then and there giving unto her the said
Jane Blakey< no role > one mortal Bruise in and upon the Right side
of her Head under the Right Ear, of which said mortal Bruise
she the said Jane Blakey< no role > then and there did die. And so the
Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said
Samuel Seymar her the said Jane Blakey< no role > in Manner and by the
Means aforesaid feloniously did kill and slay, against the Peace
of our said Lord the King his Crown and Dignity. And that he
the said Samuel Seymar at the time of committing the Felony
and Manslaughter aforesaid or at any time since, had no
Goods or Chattels Lands or Tenements within the said Liberty
or elsewhere to the Knowledge or Notice of the said Jurors.
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said
Richard Cole< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors, have to this
Inquisition set their Hands and Seals, the Day Year and
Place first above written.

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner
Richd ColeForeman




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